Pearse Doherty

Pearse Doherty claims crisis did not happen by accident but stems from Govermment’s decision to outsource provision of housing to private sector

Ivana Bacik says Housing for All targets should be closer to 50,000 homes per year

New charge to be introduced on Friday could add €300m to Housing for All targets, industry bodies have warned

Eclipsed mainstream parties contesting seats against backdrop of rampant SF and Independents advancing on the margins

As it plunges deeper into middle-class voting channels, the party is refining its tax policies and wooing big business

The main Opposition party, already influencing policy, faces big choices in the months ahead

The drumbeat of interest rate hikes from Frankfurt will make voters across the political spectrum increasingly cranky

Central Bank had estimated 54,000 borrowers could switch providers to lower rates

Borrowers whose mortages are stuck in investment funds could switch, Central Bank data shows

Unelected people are prominent and important in the leadership and decision-making processes of Sinn Féin

Minister for Health accuses Sinn Féin of ‘playing politics’, saying providing estimated cost could open State to further claims

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty accuses Taoiseach of seeking to shift blame for housing crisis

Sinn Féin: Hospital set to be one of most expensive globally and yet no indication of when ‘doors are actually going to open’

Taoiseach says further revelations about additional barter accounts is another ‘disquieting development’

With the Dáil approaching the long summer recess, the House scheduled, by popular demand, a 3½-hour episode covering RTÉ's payments, junkets, goody-bags and free bus from Drumcondra

Budget 2024 will include more than €1bn to help families and a package ‘much greater than that’ allowing for welfare increases, says Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

RTÉ Tuesday statement sheds ‘some light’ on what transpired but many questions remain, says Varadkar

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty claimed ‘we live in a rip-off republic’ where energy costs were the second most expensive in the EU

Pearse Doherty claims Government has its ‘head in the sand’ despite families seeing mortgage payments increase by thousands of euro

Fianna Fáil sources sceptical of claims over how many people would benefit from the plan

With a predicted €65bn in surpluses, the Government has to work out how to invest sensibly in public services and avoid overheating the economy

Last month three members of same family died in collision on road, Pearse Doherty says

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar signals move on restoring relief to mortgage holders shouldering increased borrowing costs will be considered by Government

Micheál Martin defends Government’s records accusing SF of putting forward ‘knee jerk’ mortgage interest relief proposal

Oireachtas committee members were ‘shocked’ after a fractious session with Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt

Watt never intended to come across as dismissive, cocky, combative and arrogant at the Oireachtas finance committee but unfortunately for him he did

Department of Health secretary general disputed many key findings of report into botched secondment of former chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan to TCD

Account given by Deirdre Gillane in report about secondment controversy was ‘correct’ version of events, says Minister for Health

‘Nobody who wants to see a radical program by Sinn Féin wants business to be punished. They need to have a job’ - Pearse Doherty

Mary Lou McDonald shakes up front bench in readiness for election, with Pa Daly appointed spokesman on justice

Heated exchanges as Ceann Comhairle told TDs public were ‘disgusted’ with behaviour on display

‘No economic case’ for extending lower VAT rate, Minister for Finance told

Pearse Doherty signals fresh efforts to extend the ban, saying supporters of Government ‘turned their backs’ on renters

Demand to exceed supply in the medium term with economic data indicating a more positive general outlook than had been anticipated last year

VAT reduction on gas and electricity bills was part of Government’s €1.2bn cost of living package

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Pearse Doherty to ask Revenue Commissioners to clarify whether share awards comply with bonus restrictions

Vote could be awkward for Government TDs such as Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello who have been critical of decision

Dublin Region Homeless Executive, which runs family evening placement, said it has not run out of emergency accommodation

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty said Dublin family were told there was no place for them