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- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----to cover beds, urgent care, women's health, older people, mental health and national strategies. This is a paltry sum.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a joke.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: There is going to be chaos in our health system next year, just as there was each year before because the Government is deliberately not making the types of improvements and reforms required with the funding that is necessary. It stands in stark contrast to Sinn Féin's comprehensive proposals. We have a plan to reform the health service, boost capacity, train the workforce of tomorrow...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: We did.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is exactly what we did.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: ----- to protect people from the cost-of-living crisis in the here and now, to make a lasting difference in people's lives and to tackle social exclusion and poverty. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, talked about child poverty being a priority of the Government. Some 230,000 children are currently experiencing material deprivation. This is an increase of almost 30,000 children since 2022. If...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Read the budget.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The rise comes amid a 3% real decline in the average disposable income of households with children. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have failed families and failed children, and child poverty is deepening as a result. Child benefit is a crucial tool for tackling child poverty and supporting families. After Fianna Fáil crashed the economy in 2008, it made children pay. Remember that,...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: We never kneecapped children anyway. Has Sinn Féin ever apologised?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Initially-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: We never-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, let us-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputies, please.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Listen. None of your bull. You cut the child benefit and you squeezed the children further.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is the reality.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Has Sinn Féin ever apologised?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is Deputy Micheál Martin trying to deny that Fianna Fáil cut the child benefit or is Fine Gael trying to say it did not make cuts to child benefit for later children and abolish the grants for multiple children? That is the reality, folks. Do not deny reality; own it and embrace it.