Results 221-240 of 1,048,762 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Byrne OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Bernard Durkan OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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.
- 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.