Results 181-200 of 1,188,436 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Emer Higgins OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Patrick Costello OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Joe Flaherty OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Marc MacSharry OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Michael Lowry OR speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Bernard Durkan OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Brendan Smith OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald) in 'Committee meetings'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before calling Deputy Nolan, I will join with the Minister in acknowledging the enormous contribution Deputy Naughten has made during his long years of service here. I extend the sympathy of all Members to the Deputy and his family on their recent tragic bereavement. We hope the next phase of his life will be as successful as the one he is bringing to an end when the election is called.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I will add to that contribution in respect of Deputy Naughten. We also convey our best wishes. The Deputy and his family are in our thoughts and prayers. Last week, I was privileged to facilitate a briefing in the audiovisual room from parents and educators associated with the national Therapists in Special Schools Alliance. There was a very encouraging level of cross-party attendance....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this really important issue. As she has correctly stated, it is an issue that transcends politics. We all want to see the best of education for all our children. We particularly want to see supports in place for those kids with additional and special needs. We have made significant strides in that period. I will come to the Deputy's question directly but I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister, but with respect he has not answered the question about when the revised housing targets will be published. He referred to the legacy shortfall, but we acknowledge that. I think everyone recognises that. To go back to another canine analogy, we talked about the dogs on the street, but it is a bit like saying the dog ate my homework for the Government to say this is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is your legacy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister and his colleagues need to be dealing with it with more urgency and ambition precisely because of that shortfall and because there is a cumulative impact to inaction and falling short of targets. The longer targets are left unmet or too low, the more difficult it is to play catch-up. That is what we are hearing from the construction industry, which is trying to build but has so...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The scaling up of investment in housing is unprecedented. This year we will invest €5.1 billion in housing, which is the highest amount ever. Next year we have budgeted for over €6 billion through all the funding mechanisms. The revised targets are being worked through right now in conjunction with the revised national planning framework. I cannot give the Deputy a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We will not see the targets this side of the election.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: He will not answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Denis Naughten: Last week at a Cancer Trials Ireland event, patient advocate Patrick Kivlehan spoke out about how participating in a clinical trial probably saved his life. He highlighted that delays in opening clinical trials to Irish patients could be a matter of life or death. I acknowledge that access to clinical trials is a Government priority. The current national cancer strategy aims for 6% of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for his questions and the points he has raised on this very important issue. He has been and continues to be a strong advocate for the expansion of clinical trials and of access to them. The Minister for Health has been very clear that he wants to double the number of clinical trials taking place in Ireland. Patients involved in clinical trials can, as the Deputy said,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Denis Naughten: In what is my last-ever intervention during Leaders' Questions, I return to the issue of genomics and cancer. Today there 2,435 people on the waiting list at St. James's Hospital for hereditary cancer tests, including for breast cancer. Some of these patients are mothers of young families waiting over 18 months to access a potentially life-saving test. Cancer genetic counselling is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The facts speak for themselves. The CSO has cut right through the Minister's bluster and spin. The CSO has told us they are not their figures or what they are presenting. The CSO has told us in plain English this Government of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has delivered less housing in the first nine months of this year than in the same period last year. That is a simple fact. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Beidh díomá ar an Teachta because déanfaimid níos mó ná ár sprioc an bhliain seo. Táim cinnte faoi sin. We will deliver high 30,000s or early 40,000s this year. I talk to people who are building and I am out around the Twenty-Six Counties of the Republic. Deutsche Bank's report confidently predicts over 40,000 units this year. Cairn, one of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You built 100 affordable homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Come on, Deputy. Stop now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Affordable homes are not €470,000, Minister. Cop on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is delusion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Pearse, can I-----