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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Deputy McDonald raised an important issue there and I was getting an update on Tori Towey at the same time. I apologise if I did not do her question the justice it deserves and I am happy to come back on it. On Deputy Bacik's point, the Child Law Project has done incredible work in shining a light on what is extraordinarily difficult, and it should be doing that. I am very eager to meet...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: Yesterday at the launch of the summer economic statement the Taoiseach stated that the budget will support people with disabilities. If the Government is serious about that commitment, this budget has to deliver more than one-off measures. It has to address the structural issues around income inequality for disabled people, including a weekly cost-of-disability payment and an increase in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I will absolutely commit to doing more than one-off payments for people with disabilities across a range of areas. I am now chairing the Cabinet committee on disability, which met again last week. Myself and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, have met with a number of advocacy organisations in recent weeks. On the specifics of payments, I have to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: Section 39 organisations still do not have pay parity.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I am not disputing that but I just want to make the point that we genuinely have, from memory, more than 200 vacant funded posts currently. We are working intensively with the HSE. I met the chief executive of the HSE on this last week to discuss how we can improve recruitment and retention to our CDNTs, but also how we can grow the therapy places in our colleges. I will send the Deputy a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: An Post is pursing a privatisation agenda. Tallaght post office, along with five others, is on the chopping block. This will mean that one of the busiest post offices in the State will be closed down. The workers will be forcibly redeployed elsewhere and the community will be left with a much-reduced service in a smaller post office in a different location. I have raised this again and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Murphy for raising this issue, which he has raised in this House previously. I will ask the Minister for communications to specifically revert to him on the points he made today.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Verona Murphy: We are seven weeks away from the start of the new school term and just five weeks after the payment closing date for school transport applications. Temporary alleviation measures were approved which allowed for the provision of additional school transport for post-primary students in Gowran, County Kilkenny last year. In Kilmore, County Wexford, we have approximately 102 students requesting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: We did not need the Housing Commission to tell us we needed to increase housing targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Hang on a second. We are doing it but we do it in a clear, methodical, evidence-based way. I clearly announced before I became Taoiseach that we needed to build 250,000 more homes between 2025 and 2030. Many people scoffed at that - not people in this House, in fairness - and said it was not possible or credible. Now ESRI research, Housing Commission reports and the CIF indicate it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: It only includes direct Exchequer funding.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: I raise the case of a young man which exemplifies much of what is not working in our asylum system. His name is Tayeb. He lives in Scariff, County Clare. The Taoiseach will know Scariff; he was there a few months ago to announce public expenditure and forget to invite public representatives from outside the Government parties. That can happen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: You were there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: I was there. People in Scariff are hospitable and few would remind the Taoiseach of that. They are generally kind and forgiving people. Tayeb quite likes it there but there is no university in Scariff. He has been offered a place in UCD which he wants to take up. He wants to get on with his life. He applied for asylum on 5 January along with his parents. He made his way from Gaza to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I enjoyed my visit to Scariff and meeting the Deputy there. I apologised for the Deputy not receiving a formal invite and I wish him well with his new-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: It was all the other public representatives who were not there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy was looking out for the others. I thank him. I appreciated seeing him there and wish him well with his new role in the European Parliament. The Deputy raised a number of elements and I will try to work through them. We need to be honest with people on accommodation. The Deputy rightly raised the situation of a young man doing his best to get educated and get to work. That...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: I completely understand the State cannot accommodate people where they want to be accommodated. That is not my complaint; my complaint is he cannot work to earn the money to pay for accommodation in Dublin. The Taoiseach says people can apply after five months and then it takes ten weeks but they have a right after six months so the Taoiseach is implicitly acknowledging the right to work...