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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [26970/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [26985/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [27027/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [28139/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination generally meets in advance of Government meetings and its next meeting is scheduled for 8 July 2024. I am a member of the committee, with the Tánaiste and the leader of the Green Party. The Secretary General to the Government, my chiefs of staff and chiefs of staff for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Each Deputy has one minute and a half each to make their contributions, beginning with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raise an issue with the Taoiseach about which he has received correspondence from the alliance supporting nursing homes. It wrote to the Taoiseach on 21 June 2024 regarding the national vetting service which, I believe, crosses Departments. I imagine that as it is dealt with under the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, it has implications across Government...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I remind Deputies that we have seven more contributors with speaking time of one minute and a half each. I call Deputy Paul Murphy to speak now, please.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I want to show the Taoiseach some pictures and I can send them to him. I have a picture here of a series of staples and nails and similarly in this photograph. This is meant to be a picture of the cremated remains of an individual, a guy called Johnny Fox. There are quite a number of staples, nails and screws in his cremated remains. Johnny Fox was the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: After a revolt by disabled people forced the Government to scrap the hated Green Paper, the Taoiseach pledged to meet disabled persons organisations to discuss an alternative. On 8 May, the Taoiseach told me that, as Taoiseach, he intended to meet directly with disability groups and that he would be issuing invitations to engage more substantially with them. Having waited six weeks from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: There is an urgent need for co-ordination on school transport. It is particularly sparse in rural areas and is very limited. A group of parents got together in my constituency to campaign for the introduction of a bus between Bantry and Schull Community College and there are about 35 pupils who need it. Bus Éireann has told me that the children are already covered under the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, a Canadian tourist who was attacked on O'Connell Street last week has died in hospital. Neno Dolmajian from Montreal was 41 years old. It is a very sad, tragic and heartbreaking occasion for his family and friends and our deepest sympathies go out to his family. It points to a very serious issue that the main street of our capital city is a dangerous and violent place on a regular...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: There is a significant problem with how we are building and providing schools. This is not just an issue in Dublin South-Central, but the major problems in that constituency are emblematic. Our Lady of Hope School has no PE hall. Setanta Special School was due to be completed in 2020, but the latest date given is now quarter 3 of 2025. It shares rooms with Riverview Educate Together...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am sorry, but the Deputy can only ask a question about one issue. If he wants to table a Topical Issue about schools generally in his constituency, I will happily take that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: In that vein, let me take the question as one about school supply in Dublin South-Central. I thank the Deputy for raising a number of schools, including Our Lady of Hope School and Setanta Special School, the need for Gaelcholáistí in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, and the need for a secondary school more generally. I will raise each of these issues with the Minister, Deputy Foley....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

John Brady: Last month, the Taoiseach stated that he intended to hold an inquiry into the handling of Covid before the next general election and that its terms of reference would be published within weeks. One month later and there has been nothing. I do not often agree with the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, but I do when he says that, during Covid, nursing homes in Wicklow were left screaming...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I am very much aware that, at what was a very difficult time in our country and the world, many people in Ireland worked extremely hard to save lives. I am very proud of a lot of the work that was done during Covid. However, it is very important that, after any pandemic, there is a look-back, there are lessons learned and there are answers provided. We are reflecting on the terms of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Parental alienation is where children are kept for long periods from meeting one or other of their parents, during which time it is suggested that they may be subjected to immersion therapy, a practice that is illegal and banned everywhere except where prisoners of war have been victims of it. Will the Taoiseach confirm that no such acts have taken place and no children have been subjected...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Thanks, Deputy Durkan. Unfortunately, I cannot do that because I do not have that level of knowledge. I acknowledge that the Deputy has raised the issue of what he calls parental alienation on a very regular basis. What I know is that the Minister for Justice has just completed and published a very substantial piece of work in respect of how our family courts operate and how the voices and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Taoiseach.