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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application can be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose mother was sent abroad from a mother and baby home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15399/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ..., sna seachtainí agus sna míonna atá amach romhainn. Sin na fíricí. The reality of our broken housing system does not seem to have dawned on the Tánaiste or any of his Government colleagues because if it had, they would not have voted last night again to make more people homeless in the coming days, weeks and months. The Tánaiste should listen back...

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: On leaks from the Cabinet, the Taoiseach's Department oversees the investigation to ensure that no leaks take place. I raised this with him at last year's Estimates the leak of the mother and baby home report. It was very insensitive and caused a lot of hurt and pain at that time. An investigation was ongoing last year. Can the Taoiseach update the committee? Has that investigation...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is part of a Government that is notoriously leaky, and I am not going to go into his own issues as it is subject to a criminal investigation. Yesterday, the Taoiseach could not update the House in regard to the investigation into the leak regarding the mother and baby homes commission after that report made its way to Government. As he knows, this was a leak that caused...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...relates to Government leaks. It does not concern the investigation by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation into the leaking of the document by the Tánaiste. This concerns a different leak and one that has caused much hurt, anger and pain. On 10 January, the mother and baby homes report was leaked to the national media before it was shared with the survivors. I am...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I begin by paying tribute to all the women and children who spent time in these institutions, including those in my county of Donegal. I pay tribute to the bravery shown by the survivors who engaged with the commission. I know there are many who did not have the opportunity to do so. Tá moladh tuillte ag na mná, a gcuid teaghlaigh agus a gcuid páistí don...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom tacaíocht a thabhairt don rún seo, atá curtha chun tosaigh ag an Teachta O'Reilly. Each time there is a scandal in the State, the crisis is initially downplayed. There are accusations of overreaction and so on. However, the scandal ends up being worse than it initially appeared. That was recently the case in respect of the mother and baby home in Tuam, the...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...í sin mar ba cheart agus fuair méid mór díobh bás faoi chúram an Stáit agus faoi chúram na heaglaise ag an am. Cuirim fáilte roimh an fógra atá déanta ag an Rialtas go mbeidh fiosrúchán sa réimse seo. Tá sé iontach tábhachtach go dtarlaíonn sin go scioptha, ach go ndíreoidh an...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...only objection is that it is not in government to do it. Sinn Féin has no issue whatsoever with taxing wealth - property is a part of wealth - but we are completely opposed to taxing the family home, regardless of income or wealth. If we want to have a wealth tax, let us tax the yachts, helicopters and investments of the wealthy and set a threshold for an exemption up to a certain...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: However, if their tax liability is high enough that is basically it. While there is a minimum threshold there is no maximum. I do not live in Limerick and have not spent much time there but I have been around the city and seen the accommodation in Moyross. Many people there would love the Minister to be announcing that if they carried out upgrades to their houses, the Government would...