Results 181-200 of 1,169,648 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Michael McDowell OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor OR speaker:John Paul Phelan OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Michael Moynihan OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Ossian Smyth OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Gerald Nash OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh07 OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:John McGuinness OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh05 OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh20 OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Dessie Ellis OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh09 OR speaker:Thomas Gould OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Michael Collins OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh12 OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Mark Ward) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I have asked. Please go on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The fact of the matter is this Government delivered more new social homes last year than has been done in 50 years and will do more this year. We will achieve our social housing new-build targets this year and will exceed our affordable housing targets this year. We have more first-time buyers than we have had since 2006 with the supports we have brought in, which the Deputy would get rid...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Home ownership has collapsed under this Government. It is ridiculous.