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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: We will call a vote and they will be upset about the business but none of them bothered dissenting at the meeting. Let us have a little bit of fairness and give and take here. Deputy McGrath's commitment to investment in water services is something we share. The Government is very keen to do more in relation to water. Irish Water as a vehicle is delivering but investing more in its...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: What party leader wants a second bike shed?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are the proposed arrangements for the week's business agreed? Agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to make a point of order.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes, Deputy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is fairly hard for any Deputy in the House to get elected. For each Deputy, it is a difficult ordeal. Notwithstanding that, it is easy enough to come up from Kerry. There are no restrictions all the way on the road up but it is getting increasingly more difficult to come into this building. On my way, I went out of the Dáil and I wanted to come back up through Molesworth Street....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: All right Deputy. There are security measures in place because of threatened protest outside. We did not want to see happening today what happened on our return last September. The Superintendent circulated to every Member the details of how access could be achieved. I accept that it is problematic for Members and I am quite prepared to talk to them offline about how we might improve...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I listened with interest to the contributions of the witnesses. I thank them for attending. I come from a construction background. I am very frustrated by the lack of new ideas as to how we should get the private housing market, which is dysfunctional, working. I listened with interest to the proposal that we should not spend any of this surplus money we have and that we should be bank...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I believe the witnesses, as independent observers and experts, can look at how we are doing our business, the processes we are using, what that is costing and how we can save money by doing things differently. I go back to the Dublin Port tunnel. It is the example I will give. There was talk at the time that it was not high enough to take trucks, it was leaking and it was going to fall in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I am not asking Professor McMahon to do so. If one takes a number of projects that have never gone anyplace, one will see how much is being spent on them and how many millions of euro have we wasted.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Professor McMahon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I agree that we need checks and balances but I believe we have gone from correcting what was wrong to overcorrection. Now we end up at a stage where we have probably a worse situation and we are using a lot of resources in it which should be better employed and still have checks and balances. If one takes housing, for example, one should devolve the authority to the local authority to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Ministers. We are talking about all the money we have. It is dangerous times because it is about how we can spend it wisely rather than just throwing it around the place. I said it last year and I agree with the fact that we need to be putting some of this money into a future fund and a climate fund. We also have an opportunity to do something with some of this money to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I also asked about transport.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Government's commitment to establish a commission of investigation in the wake of the awful revelations about abuse of children in religious-run schools as illustrated in Mary O’Toole’s scoping inquiry. I also pay tribute to Mark and David Ryan. Can we have clarity from the Taoiseach on the timing of when the Government will introduce the terms of reference,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach has claimed that 40,000 new-build homes would be completed this year. A report from the Central Bank published this morning rubbishes this claim and states it will be 8,000 homes short. Does the Taoiseach accept the findings of the Central Bank report? Given that another report published today shows that house prices have increased by 10% in the past 12 months, will the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Ceann Comhairle’s statement on the bike shed. I understood from discussions at the Business Committee meeting that a party leader here asked for another bike shed to be built in the front yard of Leinster House. Maybe we could get clarity on that. The situation with Irish Water is just untenable. This was an outfit set up by the former Minister, Phil Hogan, and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support the request from Deputy Murphy. There has been report after report of the use of Irish sovereign airspace to transport munitions to be used in the genocide of the Palestinian people and all the issues that flow from that. This has caused widespread concern among the Irish people. We do not have clarification from the Ministers for Foreign Affairs or Transport about what are the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Thomas Pringle: On behalf of the Independent Group, I support those calls for a debate on the use of Irish airspace by the Israelis. It seems that the Government is operating on the basis that if it does not ask it will not get an answer and that is the best way to do it. We need to address that and quickly. Therefore I support a debate this week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I wish to be associated with the Ceann Comhairle’s comments on former Deputy Joe Carey. I wish him, his wife Grace and his family the very best and I thank him for his service to this House, to my party and to the people of County Clare. My understanding is that there was no dissent at the Business Committee to the Order of Business but new season, same old, so that is okay. ...