Results 201-220 of 1,057,199 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not deny the kneecapping that you guys did.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael then cut child benefit across the board by a further €10 for the first and second children and there was a steeper cut for the third child.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: Talk about today's budget. Let us hear what the Deputy thinks of today's budget.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Today, the rate is still below where it was in 2008, despite the fact that we have €24 billion of a surplus. That is how children were made to pay during the austerity period and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will not deal with it. That is why child poverty is getting worse under Fine Gael's watch. That is why there are 30,000 more children in material deprivation under Fine...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Hear, hear.