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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Are you finished, Taoiseach? Almost a million people are on waiting lists. We have all been waiting. We have been waiting for this Government to get its act together but it has not happened and is not going to happen. It is becoming harder and harder for ordinary workers to see a GP. Dental treatment for people with medical cards has collapsed. Mental health services in this State are...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: No, you would not.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We called on the Government to deliver 21,000 social and affordable homes in the budget and 100% redress for those living with defective blocks in Celtic tiger apartments. Not one penny more has been provided for those schemes, despite them being expanded. For regeneration of inner-city flat complexes and those communities that have been waiting for decades, there is nothing from this...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: It is all provided for.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is happening.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin would make sure that they were central. We need to tackle the issue of dereliction in our cities, towns and villages. That is the scale of the ambition needed. The Minister can shake his head all he wants. Every year he has sat at the Cabinet table, the housing crisis has become worse. House prices,rents and levels of homelessness have gone through the roof. Homeownership...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Damien English: Sinn Féin wanted to build fewer houses. Bear that in mind.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government needs the scale of ambition to match what has been put forward by Sinn Féin. The truth hurts, as we hear from the heckling here. It is a sore point that not a single extra social or affordable home above the existing targets have been provided. We have long campaigned for the renter's tax credit. Do you remember that one, Paschal? You fought me tooth and nail on...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Negativity.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Under the watch of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, what has happened to the average rents? That is for existing rents. The increase for new rents is actually way higher than that. It is the same across the State. The tax credit the Minister is providing is going into the pockets of the landlords but I suspect he knew that all along. It is just another way to feather the nests of...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is the last budget from this Government and like all others there will be a spending increase. But the question we must ask ourselves, as with all other budgets, is if it will make the big difference that people need in their lives and the difference they are crying out for. Will it address the housing crisis, and make housing affordable, as laid out by Sinn Féin? The answer is...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Joe McHugh: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We are working to maintain a safe and secure Ireland and to support where we can overseas. DEFENCE Crucial to this goal is the work of the Defence Forces, for which I am announcing an allocation of €1.35 billion for 2025. This is a 22% increase in the capital investment to a record allocation of €215 million to enable the advancement of major defence equipment and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You forgot about your bike shed.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: And the children's hospital.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Today, I am providing an additional €1.7 billion for 2025 for more homes and schools, for improvements in our hospitals and to tackle climate change. This will include an investment of €400 million in the national broadband plan. Next year, total capital investment will be close to €15 billion, the highest annual spend ever in our country. As we focus on infrastructure...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: If they have a GP.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: To provide further support to families raising children, two double payments of child benefit will be made to all qualifying households in November and December. There will also be a double payment of the foster care allowance. To ensure our supports are targeted to those families who need them most, a €400 lump-sum payment will be made to recipients of the working family payment...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: At the right cost.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----at the right time. ADDING TO OUR INFRASTRUCTURE I wish, therefore, to briefly address the funding arising from the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. These funds are estimated to have a current value of €14.1 billion. This is, as the Minister, Deputy Chambers, acknowledged, a very significant amount of money.