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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I know. Nonetheless, that is a very worrying admission on the Minister’s part. Nobody is disputing that we need 50,000, 60,000 or maybe 70,000 houses a year but what the Minister seems to be saying is that it might be overheating the economy to try to deliver that. The Central Bank is talking about a timeline. Does the Minister accept that we are, therefore, facing a deficit...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are other ways around the overheating issue.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like we are facing into at least a decade, if not more, of a housing crisis. If we do not meet those targets, it is going to accumulate, just like the deficit we already have.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question on another area. There was an announcement in July of this year that the recruitment embargo had been lifted in the health service. I did not know at the time but have been informed by workers in my local hospital, St. Michael’s, and subsequently by the National Rehabilitation Hospital people when I went to the opening of the new wing there, and it has been...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am being told by the workers.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if the staffing levels are unsafe.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that the staffing levels are unsafe.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Either you can meet the targets or you cannot.
- 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. ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The problem appears to be that if a case is a difficult one, the provider can decide that it is too much hassle and throw the money back. That is what is going on. People need to start being responsible for the jobs they have at hand. The facts at the moment are that if someone is under 18 years of age there is really no place to go. We tried everything for that youngster. It is such a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I can hear the passion in the Deputy's voice about the situation he is working his way through. I think it highlights a broader issue about how we empower the person with a disability and their family in terms of the budget that the State allocates to them. I know the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and others have done work in relation to this....
- Resignation of Member (18 Sep 2024)
- Resignation of Member (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I wish to announce for the information of the House that I received a letter of resignation on 27 August 2024 from Joe Carey, a member of Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Clare. In accordance with the provisions of Standing Order 230, the resignation took effect upon receipt of the letter. I am sure we all want to join in extending our very best wishes to Joe, who has had...
- Resignation of Member (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)