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Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (21 Jul 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the total cost effect/income tax foregone by granting the home carers' tax credit for the years 2007 to 2010. [22018/11]

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Pearse Doherty: ...on €150 a week. Perhaps she should say this to the single mother who has to tell her kids that Christmas is cancelled this year. Perhaps she should say this to the disabled, the unemployed, the carers, the low paid workers in both public and private sectors, the families and the young couples struggling with massive mortgages to pay. My guess is that the Minister is too afraid to talk...

Seanad: Home Help Services. (20 May 2009)

Pearse Doherty: ...who need the support and help of those who provide this service. In the case of some people nobody calls to them except the woman or the man who provides the home help service. Many of these carers continue to provide the service in a voluntary capacity. We have debated in this Chamber the importance of volunteerism. However, we cannot ignore the fact that people need to be paid and a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Apr 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ..., isolation units and additional beds are also important. I am familiar with a nursing home in Donegal where, on foot of cutbacks, there are no cooking staff available at weekends and where a carer who is charged with looking after two patients with MRSA is obliged to enter the kitchen and prepare food. That is why MRSA is prevalent across the health system. I interrupted Senator Regan...