Tell us now why you are breaking your word. What did that guy do to you in between?
TDs / Pearse Doherty
Pearse Doherty
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1,436
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words spoken in the chamber
Across 1,657 contributions
378
votes recorded
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Across 20 departments
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| April 2025 | 59 | 72 |
| May 2025 | 117 | 111 |
| June 2025 | 79 | 75 |
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| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
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| July 2026 | 60 | 16 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 2 |
| September 2026 | 39 | 90 |
| October 2026 | 20 | 56 |
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- constituency Donegal 29 November 2024 to now
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You said there would be agreement so stand up and say it. You can laugh all you want, Michéal, but it is not funny. It is not funny what you are doing.
It is shocking what you are doing. It has never, ever happened, the stunt that you are trying to pull here.
It is not going to happen.
We have-----
Can you ask the Chief Whip-----
A Cheann Comhairle-----
We want to know-----
I welcome the UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territories, Ms Francesca Albanese, to the Chamber. Some 250 UN staff have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. Ms Albanese's presence in the Dáil is especially important as Israel continues its genocidal war on the men, women and children of Gaza. We wish her well in continuing to speak bravely against this atrocity and standing up for the human righ…
Imagine having a child with special needs, the love you would have for them, the fact you would run through a brick wall for them. Imagine having to fight every single day to get the services they need, to live with the stress and anxiety, the worry of developmental delays and the possible impact on their life and future. Imagine being told by the Government - a Minister of State, no less - that help was on the way. …
I will finish on this point. Jack has not had any physiotherapy or speech and language therapy from the HSE for a year and a half even though the Department made a promise in front of that child that he would get the services.
It is scandalous. Where is the accountability? How did this happen under the Tánaiste's watch? When is this money going to be released to these families from these organisations?
The National Claims Information Database was published today by the Central Bank of Ireland. It shows eye-watering profits by the insurance industry again. This is on the backs of ordinary people, community groups, sports organisations and small businesses the length and breadth. They have seen their premiums go up every single year. It is in the claims database that premiums are rising at a huge level. We have seen …
Savings for who?
The Tánaiste missed the point. Who is making the savings? It is the companies, not the people. The Government is sitting back.
Look at the facts.
The Government misled the public at the general election.
Did the Minister, Deputy Chambers, tell the Taoiseach?
No.
It is a Department assessment that was confidential until last week.
Do not mislead the Dáil.
You are. It was a confidential Department assessment-----
-----that was given to the Minister, Deputy Jack Chambers two days before the general election. The question was whether the Taoiseach knew.
No.
The Department's assessment is the question that was asked.
No.