Results 201-220 of 1,040,549 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Cathal Berry)
- 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.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Government did make announcements, but riddle me this, why did it single out carers? Why are carers the only category of people who will have to wait until July to get the benefit of what has been announced? What have carers done? Why are they not able to benefit like anybody else on 1 January 2025?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: There will be a number of benefits before Christmas.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Would the Taoiseach like the floor to answer the question?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Government lost the referendum.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Why is the carer's allowance means test change not available to them in January and why did the Government single them out as the only category of people who must wait a further six months? It is disrespectful to carers and the work they do. As I said, what needed to be done here was an announcement of the abolition of the means test. This would really make a meaningful difference in the...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: No.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----and workers and families cannot afford another five years of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Every day this Government is in office, it squanders valuable time.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It also, however, squanders taxpayers' money. Even though he is in charge of the OPW, it was interesting that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, did not mention during his 45-minute speech any of the projects the Government is wasting millions on, including the bike shed, the national children's hospital, the security hut and houses for Ukrainians that have seen a 120% increase. Yet the...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us pass this budget first.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Today is the day this Government will try to buy the Irish citizens with their own money. Its desperation to cling onto power permeates this budget. Ministers queue up to clap themselves in the back for divvying out the spoils to the electorate to persuade them to turn a blind eye to how they have been failed, how their families have been failed and how their communities have been failed....
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I would not mention child welfare.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----but, when we look at delivery, the Government again falls short. Key to supporting families is the availability of affordable childcare. Sinn Féin has shown how childcare could be delivered at €10 a day. That would have been a game-changer for families but the Government would not go there. This could be delivered next year for all parents in centre-based childcare and...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: How is your press office? When did you know, Pearse?