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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am dealing with this section. I would ask that I might be allowed to finish my sentence, if that is okay. The €4 billion will increase but the point is that the Minister has three options. The Minister can put in the €4 billion, put in €2 billion, which is half of that, or put in zero. There will be scenarios where one does not have the surplus that allows the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is this the voting block?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I cannot see us being back here before 9 p.m. because there are five votes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: There are two votes but they are doubles as there are amendments, so there are four votes. There is also the vote that has been called now. I do not think the committee will get this Bill finished.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The point I am making is that if we suspend for 20 minutes-----
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate on petrol and diesel prices. This is not the first time that we have brought a motion like this before the Dáil. We also brought one last September. It would be remiss of me not to address some of the hot air that we were getting from the Rural Independents. I am glad that they have left because things have cooled down a wee bit....
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What do they say to the businessman who says he has to let an employee go because his business cannot survive in this environment? It is the Government and the Minister for Finance who have decided to increase excise duty to a point where we can no longer survive. The Government is silent on this issue. I appeal to everybody who has the backs of ordinary people across this State to support...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We did not say that.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — AA Ireland's latest monthly Fuel Price Survey has reported a surge in petrol and diesel prices over the recent period; — these are the highest prices reported in 2024, with almost a 13 cent increase in petrol and a 9 cent increase in diesel since January 2024; and — fuel prices have risen by more than 30 per cent...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the acquisition of certain residential property where a person acquires at least ten such units during a 12-month period, disaggregated by county in which the property was located, in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. [19509/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the acquisition of certain residential property where a person acquires at least ten such units during a 12-month period; the total number of purchasers; and the total value of stamp duty paid, in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. [19512/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the assistance his Department can provide for a play group (details supplied) a service that faces closure due to its building being condemned as a result of the presence of defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19436/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what plans are in place for residents of a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal, after news emerged that the facility was to close for two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19525/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Government is pushing forward with Fianna Fáil's Bill that will cost local sporting clubs, charities and community organisations thousands of euro in vital fundraising. It is doing this because it is conflating fundraising with gambling across the board. We support the regulation of gambling. A quick search shows that Tus GAA Club, a playgroup, Club Limerick GAA, Tang GAA Club,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: No, you do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Lift the embargo.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Lift the embargo.