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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are you sharing time with colleagues, Deputy Boyd Barrett?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. The Government has unprecedented resources at its disposal that could have delivered a transformative budget to resolve the housing catastrophe the country is facing, address the crisis in the health service and the cost-of-living crisis and eradicate poverty. Instead of doing that, it has given us a splurge of one-off...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Never before has the opportunity or the need for action from Government to address the housing crisis been so great and never before has the opportunity for Government to address the housing crisis been so great. The Housing Commission in its report published in May stated very clearly that we need 60,000 new homes a year to be delivered. Currently only about half of that is being...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Soft landings.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: We have never had soft landings before. The way the Government is setting this country up means we will fall hard, maybe harder than we have ever fallen in the past. I will leave that there as I am running out of time. The Government is really playing fast and loose with our finances and with the country's economy. This budget is not as glossy, as shiny or as helpful to the ordinary...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The budget will be remembered as one of missed opportunities. It is kind of like a giveaway on steroids and is certainly grabbing the headlines; there is no doubt about that. We have lots of breathless reporting of the gargantuan surplus figure, that €25 billion, and the complex array of one-off measures. However,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: On behalf of the Labour Party, on a day when we discuss and debate, and scrabble over the many billions of euro we have in this country, our thoughts are with the innocents in Lebanon and Gaza and throughout the Middle East who are living in fear under a hail of drone, rocket and artillery fire as that war not only continues but escalates.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: The Government has done a remarkable job trying to frame this budget as a budget that has no losers and only winners, that it is a budget that will benefit everyone, particularly children and families. If we look beyond our shores economically, we can see that the three largest economies in Europe, namely, Germany, France and the UK, are facing gloomy economic predictions of varying degrees....

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear - 100%.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: It is needed to help build, to help care, to help teach and to help deliver a public service. Today, in our health service and hospitals there are 576 people on trolleys. Our trolley count is a crude, but powerful, indicator of the health of our health service, and 576 people on trolleys on the first day of October is a near record for the first day of this month. We need new staff but...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: Some 20% of kids, one in five children in this country, have to go without a new winter coat this year, yet more was written over the summer about the tax implications for a tiny number of families who stand to inherit businesses than how a party that promised two years ago to fix child poverty might consign that scandal to history. The Minister, Deputy Burke, spent most of the spring and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As a party we know the challenges that farmers, fishermen and rural dwellers face. Not only can agriculture deliver on food and decarbonisation objectives, we firmly believe the industry has a role to play in decarbonising other sectors of business and industry, delivering on biodiversity, nature restoration and energy security. Farmers in ACRES are in limbo. An announcement has been...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why we have to create a country to which they can come back. Agriculture operates on an island-wide basis and our commission on the family farm would include representatives and stake holders from all 32 counties. Under the Government, we have seen the imbalance in regional development laid bare. It is true that the eastern seaboard, Dublin and other cities must be supported but...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will share time with Deputy Duncan Smith. The Ireland of 2024 is a country of winners and losers. It is a country of contrasts and contradictions. It is a paradox of plenty, if ever there was one. We have record corporation tax receipts and record numbers of our citizens without a home. We have the highest number of people ever at work, yet one in five of these workers subsists on...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That is not true.