Results 161-180 of 1,253 for long speaker:Pearse Doherty

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...is gone. Another Norwegian vessel turned around and is away back to Norway because they heard about the craic that is going on in Killybegs. If this gets out, as it is getting out, there could be long-term reputational damage. This issue needs to be resolved. Thankfully, there is a solution. The industry itself has developed a weighing mechanism that the High Court has ruled can be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...the water quickly, weighed and then put back into water - is willing to give the machine to the SFPA and the SFPA would run it. Given that the High Court has stated that the machine can be used as long as it is independently calibrated, there is a solution. I welcome the Minister's statement that he will take an interest in this matter, given the importance of the sector, particularly...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ..., the situation now is that a Polish person living in Lifford and having to travel across the bridge to Strabane will need a visa, an ETA, which will cost money. It will state clearly on it how long it will last for and how many trips the holder will be allowed to undertake on that visa. This is a ridiculous situation because of the number of non-Irish and non-British people who live in...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How long does the Minister have to conclude?

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...date. Stakeholders, including the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, MABS, the Social Finance Foundation and the UCC academics who authored the landmark 2018 report, have been calling for a cap on moneylender interest rates for some time. It has been for too long. I and my party have been campaigning on this for years. The key issue is putting a hard cap in place on the interest rate...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: .... First, the Bill provides for the reopening of the employment wage subsidy scheme for businesses which would otherwise not have had access to the scheme at that time as they would not have been eligible and that such businesses can continue to be supported until the scheme expires. The legislation also provides certain businesses which are no longer eligible to reapply from 1 January...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We have debated long and hard the impact of carbon taxes and the failure of the Minister to reach out to his colleagues in the European Commission to speak about the potential of reducing VAT. This has not happened, despite the fact I raised it with the Minister in September. Deputy Carroll MacNeill rightly points out the Minister brought forward a tax package. The largest part of that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...still give us a date, a year later, of when the legislation is going to be produced. The Minister has stated that she will not bring forward stand-alone legislation because it would take too long, although if Government had really gripped the issue, it would have been done and dusted by now. I ask the Minister to at least publish the amendments in order that we can see whether the...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...in corporation tax on any of those profits, which were made on the back of renters paying sky-high rents. Sinn Féin has warned this Government and this Minister for years that the sweetheart tax deals he granted these funds would undermine the efforts and interests of renters and buyers. That has come to pass. Now is the time for change. It is long overdue. This motion calls on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...Tánaiste is mixing it up with Boris Johnson's plan for Britain. I raise the mica and pyrite defective blocks scheme. There are serious concerns in Donegal and elsewhere about the timeframes and how long it will take. There are suggestions it could be close to the end of the year. We need urgency from the Government on this. Those concerns are only being added to now due to the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How long has it been going on for now?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Inn fairness, how long is a piece of string? It appears that nothing is happening here. There are only so many people in the Cabinet. There are only so many people that would have had access to that report. This was a hurtful thing that happened to those victims. It should not be taking a year and a half to conclude an investigation into this. Has the Taoiseach asked for an update from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...households. Instead the Government is trading sound bites with leaks from parliamentary party meetings rather than real and immediate action. The Irish people deserve a Government that understands the difficulties that they are facing, not a Government that ignores, delays or, indeed, even makes things worse in some cases. The time to act is long overdue. Not all households will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How long is the Ceann Comhairle going to give him to respond? He has not responded. He is talking about the funeral of somebody who passed away two years ago.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...Because the Minister ensured the terms of reference he drafted ensured he was outside the scope of the review. This is typical of a Minister who is out of touch, who has been at the helm for too long and whose judgment has been called into question more and more often. On the media this morning the Minister, Deputy Coveney, said he is accountable to this House and it is here he will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...One family told a colleague of mine that they were so concerned about the changes in their child's behaviour and appearance that they challenged the doctor, only for the doctor to threaten to report them to Tusla. That is disgraceful. Failures in clinical governance and oversight have had real consequences for the health and well-being of these children. Those consequences will last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...and gas. Despite their households having cheaper energy costs than those in this State, other European Union member states are acting, in some cases through multibillion euro packages, to support workers and families through this period. In light of the fact that the Government is reported to be considering a financial package, how long must workers and families wait for it to act?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...It was the same when the Government was going to roll out free antigen tests but then Lidl and so on sorted it out. It is likely that the same thing will happen here. The Government will take so long to come up with a scheme that the weather will have got better. We will be into the spring or the summer and the Government will say that help is no longer needed. We have been raising...