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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...deliver 50,000 affordable homes to purchase at less than €250,000. My question is: where are those homes are today? I am sure many people are scratching their heads asking the same question. The Government's policy has driven house prices out of control and out of reach of ordinary families. What does the Tánaiste say to people in his constituency and across the State who...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I say this often, but Deputy Gould is 100% right. Earlier, I said the reason the Government is getting the Bill so wrong is it does not understand what is happening in the housing crisis. Deputy Gould put to the Minister what is happening on his doorstep and he seems to think everything is okay. It is far from okay. Deputy Gould also mentioned the statistics released today. What is...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ..., climate and nature fund for the purpose of funding desperately needed housing projects across the State between now and 2030? The only possible explanation, because the Minister will vote against this, is that the Government does not understand the depth of the housing crisis it has created or that it simply does not care. The amendment is in recognition of the fact that, given the...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...domestic investment than from international investment. The NTMA will feel it has to get the most competitive returns available, even though there is an opportunity cost lost. Amendment No. 2 does not direct it to invest in the domestic economic development or sectors such as housing, infrastructure, energy and water. It states that the fund should "have regard to the promotion of",...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: .... Regarding the numbers of professionals that were to be recruited this year, the Tánaiste is responsible for this because he will be part of the Government making this decision. The Government does not have its act together. It is the month of May and the Government has not sat down to look at the workforce plan for 2024. The HSE is in limbo and does not know how many it can...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Is it that the Government does not know? Why would it not be provided in the SES? Why would the general Government balance not be provided for those years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: When the Minister does that, can he also provide information on whether the projections for each of those years up to 2027 are in current cost or constant cost?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...items that make up the remainder of this envelope? When we take 2027, for example, if we strip out those two funds, there is about €1.1 billion in terms of non-voted capital expenditure. Where does that non-voted capital expenditure fall?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...core year-on-year increases. I note what the Minister said about this being the last year we will see core increases presented in this fashion, given what the Commission now requires. However, it does provide us with a core year-on-year increase figure for this table. Can he provide a breakdown for each of the years of these increases with respect to existing levels of service,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...In terms of the core year-on-year increase, is the Minister able to identify the capital expenditure increase for each of the years from 2025 to 2027, inclusive, outside of the windfall capital? Does the Minister have that figure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Then there is windfall capital, which is a separate line. Windfall capital does not get covered in the Minister's core expenditure rule and therefore tries to save his blushes when he breaches the 5% spending rule again this year for the fourth time. Where does that sit? Does that just sit in addition to it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...at least €3 billion of that is ELS. About half a billion euro is capital, which is across all Departments and that then leaves you the remainder for new measures. That level of additional capital simply does not cut it and we have been here before with the Minister. Unfortunately, the numbers in respect of homelessness are testament to what I have been saying for many years about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...is not going to meet the target under these capital ceilings because these ceilings do not increase to allow an increase in the level of social, affordable and cost-rental housing construction. Does the Minister have any understanding of the commitment his party leader gave to have 250,000 homes built, with respect to how many of them will actually be public, meaning social, affordable...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: No, but the Minister has not given a commitment. Why may it not be provided? Is it because the Government does not know at this stage? What is the rationale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...300 people who turned up in Inishowen were not satisfied with the progress. I am reading through countless emails here to go back over them again. There are different examples of how the scheme does not work for people and how it is not 100% redress. Because if it was 100% redress, they would not be complaining. There are surely red tape and bureaucracy issues in this regard but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Rafferty is talking about speedy implementation and all the rest. Why does he think the BPFI brought the proposal to the Department in July? Does he think it dreamed it up one day sitting across the road? Is it not the case homeowners were telling them they had problems with upfront costs? They were also telling the Department. In July of last year, the BPFI had developed a proposal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...built. I will give Mr. Rafferty an example I have here. If somebody is rebuilding under this scheme and has been quoted for the works, the timber frame producer requires €70,000 upfront. How does he or she deal with that? If you are buying a timber-frame house, you have to pay a certain amount upfront. They are not professional fees. How does he or she deal with that under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I know the scheme does not allow-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Does there have to be a certain amount of work carried out before that can be-----