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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Last week, I raised with the Tánaiste the fact that homes at Oscar Traynor Road, under a so-called Government affordable housing scheme, would cost between €400,000 and €475,000 for a three-bedroom home. Sinn Féin warned from the beginning that this plan would lead to homes that were unaffordable and out of reach of ordinary people. In the Tánaiste's response to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, I accept that the affordable purchase homes scheme at Oscar Traynor Road are subsidised through the local authority shared equity scheme, not the first home shared equity scheme, as I inadvertently said. However, that does then mean that is also subsidised up to potentially €100,000 under that scheme, plus the €30,000 from the help-to-buy scheme, which the Deputy did not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The price is still €400,000.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: The only way to deal with affordable housing, in my view, is more supply, and we have to build more houses. I would argue that the schemes, and the multiple schemes we have for affordability, are far superior than anything the Deputy's party has produced so far. In fact, his party would take away those schemes we have provided, and I think that would be very detrimental to affordability and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Is it affordable?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Tánaiste will know that the young campaigner for autism services, Cara Darmody, is continuing her protest this week outside Leinster House. I pay tribute to Cara's tenacity in organising her campaign. She is calling for access to assessments of need and services for all children, and an end to the scandalous waiting lists that far too many are facing. Some time ago, the HSE stated...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: It is not the policy, nor should it be the policy, that responses occur via protests alone. Every child is entitled, in my view, to the fundamentals. There was a court action which effectively meant the HSE had to go back to the drawing board with regard to the assessment of need process. We may have to look at legislation in that respect. It would be interesting to see how the Oireachtas...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: Some 3,000 people with status to remain here are being told to leave their IPAS accommodation as of tomorrow. My very simple question to the Tánaiste is this. Where is the Government asking these people and their families to go? I think I know the answer. In the absence of a plan, there will be a merry-go-round of misery. This question - where are people simply to go? - was put...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. What we are looking to do is to support people who have been given status in this country to access the services and housing supports that everybody else in this country is entitled to do. That is why we have provided very significant resources over the last number of years, working with housing NGOs to put in place officers who are directly engaging with people who have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Minister definitely does not believe that. He cannot believe it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is a national scandal how children with scoliosis are treated in this country. They are left languishing on waiting lists, not for months but for years in some cases, with their conditions worsening. We have heard promise after promise about bringing the waiting lists down, going back to 2017, when we heard from then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, that there would be a maximum...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Tánaiste and I us agree on the historical aspect. My question is about how the State in some way tries to compensate a little bit for some of the awful experiences of those children in its care. I looked at the review clause in the legislation and I am not sure there is actually a possibility to extend it. However, section 49 states that the Minister, in considering whether an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Review mechanisms have been built into the legislation. Doors are not finally closed. However, I would offer this point as well. I set up the commission into industrial schools. I remember meeting on day one with the survivors, who actually never looked for a redress scheme. It was clear to me that future housing, healthcare and constant counselling were important - so lifelong. At...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: Having been through this for 20 or 25 years now, I have seen that in all of the various commissions and investigations, lawyers get involved very quickly and it moves very quickly to redress. We do it, and the State owes redress, but the more substantive response in my view is lifelong provision of counselling, housing and supports for people who have been through terrible ordeals in their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I apologise to Deputy Shanahan as I should have called him earlier.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise the lack of State delivery to Waterford and the south east. I must first congratulate the Tánaiste on a great European election in Ireland South. Billy Kelleher romping home was expected, but having Cynthia Ní Mhurchú pipping Grace O'Sullivan was somewhat surprising. It must have been very pleasing for the Tánaiste, if not for his Green Party colleagues. Of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have listened to the same Leaders' Questions from Deputy Shanahan for four years now. I do not believe he is being fair in his description of the economic, educational or health development and expansion in Waterford. In terms of employment Waterford is in very strong employment. Employment is up 26% across the south east. We are in an era of full employment. Enterprise Ireland client...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want to accuse the Tánaiste, in reading out those statements, of living in a parallel universe when it comes to Waterford but they do not reflect the reality of the situation. Trust and integrity are fundamental parts of what we should be doing in politics. We are not seeing that with regard to the delivery in my city and county. The next day I come in here, maybe I will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: I can only presume from his reply that the Tánaiste did not understand the question or the contribution that I made in the first instance so I will do my best to explain again. We hear more about women being told not to walk home alone at night than we hear about men being told not to assault or rape women who are walking home alone at night so many women decide to take a taxi. The...