Pearse Doherty

215. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated additional costs of providing a one-off payment of €100 to all core welfare payment recipients and pensioner. [11054/26]

216. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated additional costs of providing double payment to all core welfare payment recipients and pensioner. [11055/26]

389. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost in 2026 of reducing all undergraduate third level fees under the free fees initiative to €1,500 from September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11046/26]

390. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost in 2026 of abolishing apprenticeship fees from January 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11047/26]

391. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the SUSI grant by 10%. [11048/26]

392. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost in 2026 of reducing all undergraduate third level fees under the free fees initiative to €1,500 from September 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11060/26]

156. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that flood insurance is extended to the approximately 290,000 buildings in the State that have limited or no flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10449/26]

158. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total number of homes and total value of homes that have been bulk purchased each year, and subject to the higher rate of stamp duty, since the higher rate was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10450/26]

160. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will bring forward a cost-of-living package, considering inflation is far higher than projected on budget day, at 2.8%, and given the findings of the ESRI that the budget has resulted in income losses for the average household; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10451/26]

325. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport to confirm if PSO flights from Donegal to Dublin will continue as they are or if any changes will be made in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9199/26]

353. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport to clarify if his Department recognises an organisation (details supplied) as representing coast guard members who are now members of that union; if the Department will enter into formal negotiations with the organisation in respect of those volunteers; and if not, to set out the specific legal or policy basis relied upon in refusing to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9663/26]

450. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total value of overpayments to Ministers current and former; the total outstanding overpayments; the total outstanding overpayment for which no repayment plan is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9644/26]

451. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the maximum duration applied to a payment plan in place for any Minister both current and former; the dates that all Ministerial overpayment letters were sent; the number of queries received by NSSO; the number of queries received by the NSSO from Ministers not currently engaged in a repayment plan as of 10 January 2026; the number of appeals received by the NSSO as of 10 January 2026; the number of appeals received within the 21 calendar days from the issuing of the overpayment letters; the number of second overpayment letters issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9645/26]

193. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the way in which fees applied by the data protection commission are incorporated within revenue projections; if the large volume of outstanding fees are currently contained within revenue projection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9114/26]

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 29 January 2026, if he will confirm that neither his Department or the Central Bank collect data on special purpose vehicles whose primary economic activity is purchasing and owning commercial and residential property, as this is not at category in either the statistical publication or the registration guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9115/26]

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 if he is aware of any engagement between the Central Bank and national competent authority in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Cyprus, Germany and Jersey in relation to macroprudential measures for property funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9116/26]

376. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of DT1 forms submitted each year since 2016; the total estimated market value at time of disposition for each year; the total revenue raised by the discretionary trust tax both in the form of the initial 6% charge and annual 1% charge, in tabular form. [7613/26]

820. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí assigned to Gaeltacht regions; the number assigned to each station; the number who are fluent in Irish in each year since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8124/26]

956. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason the National Treatment Purchase Fund refused funding for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7432/26]

177. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the projects, energy or transport, funded by the Connecting Europe Facility which have been completed, in process or are planned on the island of Ireland or connecting to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7259/26]

178. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way he will ensure Ireland’s energy infrastructure benefits from funding under the next period of the Connecting Europe Facility; the projects he will seek funding for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/26]

184. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Defence to confirm if any of the identified 500 military hotspots under the EU’s proposal on the Connecting Europe Facility are in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7260/26]

206. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport the projects, energy or transport, funded by the Connecting Europe Facility which have been completed, in process or are planned on the island of Ireland or connecting to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7348/26]

207. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport the projects, energy or transport, funded by the Connecting Europe Facility which have been completed, in process or are planned on the island of Ireland or connecting to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7349/26]

208. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport the projects, energy or transport, funded by the Connecting Europe Facility which have been completed, in process or are planned on the island of Ireland or connecting to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7350/26]