Results 241-260 of 1,057,682 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Garret Ahearn OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Brendan Griffin)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I have announced a fuel allowance lump sum that people will be receiving. There are two energy credits worth a total of €250 that are going to be issued before Christmas. There is a 20% reduction in public transport fares for another 12 months.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: There is no public transport.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: In fairness Deputy, there is a very good-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: An increase of €12 on the cost of a tank of fuel.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: -----Local Link in County Monaghan and you will have to acknowledge that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Thomas Gould: You cannot get a bus in Cork.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is a great bus service there now and indeed when I get time I am going to use it one of these days. There is free public transport for children under nine-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: People are using their cars. They have no choice in the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: -----and an increase in the rent tax credit of €1,000 per person. Sin é.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: In his speech to the Dáil on budget day the Minister, Deputy Chambers, made a commitment to develop a framework to invest the Apple windfall receipts. Coupled with the budget commitment to "protect, renew, develop and maintain national and regional local roads", can the Minister inform the House whether projects such as the Mallow relief road and the M20 Cork to Limerick motorway can be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Government is looking at that. The Minister, Deputy Chambers, spoke about this but of course we are investing these funds for the future and there are a number of different important infrastructure projects that deserve support. I have no doubt the Mallow relief road will be included in all those considerations. I will raise that with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: What about the Cork to Limerick motorway?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am sure that is needed as well. The motorway is also an important piece of critical infrastructure.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Gary Gannon: Social Justice Ireland, the ESRI, the Growing Up in Ireland report, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and One Family have all made statements on the budget and each have highlighted the fact child poverty has increased dramatically during the Minister's time in government. It has increased so dramatically there was a 30,000 increase in children experiencing deprivation just last year. Over...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. The Government is keenly aware of issues in relation to child poverty and these issues formed a critical input into the development of the budget, which included the largest social welfare package in the history of the State. It provided €2.6 billion to assist households. The analysis published by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: There is a lot of talk about pensioners, their rights, their poverty and the way they live, but there is another aspect to pensioners we are losing sight of, that is, they are retired workers and many of them have pensions they are entitled to have and to have increases in. A cohort badly hit by the austerity in 2011 and 2012 is public sector pensioners. I am not talking about the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. I will certainly raise that with the relevant Minister. I do not know why; I cannot answer that question. I have been supporting pensioners through the Department of Social Protection. I acknowledge some public sector workers do not get a contributory State pension when they retire, but my focus has been to increase that. The €12 increase this year, along with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise an issue that has been raised by me and other Waterford Deputies over a period, namely, the Waterford Crystal pension fund. The Minister is well aware these workers were excluded from a future pension annuity and essentially it was said they had signed their rights away. That has been vehemently denied, as the Minister knows, by the workers by affidavit and in 30 years no...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have to have silence in the Gallery, please. I call the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I do not know if the Deputy reads all the papers but carers welcomed the changes I made in the budget.