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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Motion re Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh (without debate) - Statements on the CJEU Judgment in the Apple State aid case (not to exceed 2 hrs 27 mins) - Mental Health Bill 2024 (Second Stage) (if not...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is that agreed?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is not agreed. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste have told the Dáil that Irish sovereign airspace has not been used to transport weapons to Israel. We know now from the journalism of The Ditch, that this is not the case. At least six flights containing munitions have flown through Irish sovereign airspace on their way to Israel. Either the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The hospital in Galway said to bring him home because it did not have a bed. Is that the Ireland we have for treating people with disabilities? Are we going to change it and tell people they have a job to do and they must deliver? This is not about money; it is about delivery. It is scandalous what that father has gone through.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for raising this important matter. First, in relation to Lough Funshinagh, I thank him for the constructive engagement he has had with the Government on the matter. I am pleased Roscommon County Council intends to submit a planning application to An Bord Pleanála this week. I have been in the homes of the people impacted. The fear they are living with is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Mick Barry: Before people power forced you to retreat.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Welcome back, Deputy Barry. The Minister is instead examining ways to ensure that funding is provided so that front-line services can be maintained. We will continue to work with Deputies in Cork and Kerry on this matter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He said this should never have happened. This is happening on a weekly basis in Cork county and, from what I hear, it is happening on a weekly basis nationally. The Taoiseach needs to step in immediately. Members of the public in Cork county and city, and nationally, deserve nothing less than a seven-day ambulance service that they can access in no...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: With respect to the Deputy, I appreciate he is raising an important issue but he gave a view in relation to confidence and said nobody had confidence, etc. Just to be clear, I have confidence in the head of the National Ambulance Service, Robert Morton, in the management of the National Ambulance Service and in the people working in the National Ambulance Service.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is why we raised this question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for his intervention. I base that on the fact that when people give commitments as to what their targets are going to be for the year and then exceed those commitments, that is a good sign. Deputy Collins talked about the cases, and he is right to highlight them. I do not in any way dismiss them but when it comes to the published KPIs for the National Ambulance...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Is that why-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Taoiseach. Last and by no means least, I call Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice on behalf of the Independent Group.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: On a different matter, I welcome the Taoiseach's announcement the other day on Lough Funshinagh. An Bord Pleanála will get the application before Friday. I know it is three weeks late and I hope it can be expedited. I welcome it. This evening, we will debate the Apple tax and we are talking about fair sums of money in the budget. Money does not solve every problem. In late 2022,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Collins: The debacle caused by the National Ambulance Service over the past weekend has to be seriously investigated. The NAS caused fury in counties Cork and Kerry when it announced further reduction of services covering these areas. This effectively was leaving no ambulance cover for the Skibbereen area on Mondays, no service in Castletownbere on Tuesdays, no day service in Clonakilty and Bantry...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising the matter. The Minister for Health became aware of this on Monday morning and, as the Deputy has requested, he had intervened by Monday afternoon to resolve the matter. Once it was brought to the Minister’s attention, he took swift action. I commend him for that because this never should have happened and it was never the intention that it would...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach said this Government takes nothing off the table and anyone who thinks they will get off the hook is wrong but for his information, this has literally just happened with regard to the redress scheme for mother and baby homes. The Minister went over cap in hand to the Church to try to get a contribution and did not get one. Is the Taoiseach aware of a legal strategy that is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Has the Deputy done that because this is not just a debating chamber? She is a legislator. Anybody can bring forward legislation in this House so if she has ideas about how she thinks the law should be changed, she should bring them forward and we will engage with her.