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

Simon Harris: I agree with the last point. Of course we have to put systems in place and built a sustainable migration system. I assure the Deputy a huge amount of work is under way daily to make that happen. We will have another Cabinet committee on migration tomorrow. The Minister for integration, the Minister for Justice and others are working intensively on this. I am very proud of their work....

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin. He has made me feel even stronger about the point I made in my first response about the importance of the Equal start programme. I was not aware of the statistics on three-year-olds, but they are stark. I am pleased that the Equal Start programme, which is like DEIS for pre-school, will begin this September with 32,000 of the youngest children...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the condemnation of the outrageous treatment of the events that occurred for Tori Towey and call on the UAE Government to immediately drop the charges and allow her to come home. This is the last week the Dáil is sitting before the summer recess and the last opportunity I will have to ask a question during Leaders' Questions. For six weeks now, we and many others...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you Deputy, you are over time.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is a fraction of what the Housing Commission stated is necessary to address it.

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

Simon Harris: This Government takes the housing crisis extremely seriously. It is the biggest societal challenge we face. It is an intergenerational challenge that causes significant anxiety across the country. The Deputy knows we take it seriously and he knows some of the figures he never mentions when he stands up to speak on this issue. That is his prerogative. We now live in a country where more...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question. Is there more house building? Yes. Is there a bit more social housing? Yes. However, the Housing Commission has said we need to double the Government's targets. I know damn well that the LDA and the HFA are not included in the €5 billion figure, but that total figure was meant to deliver 33,000 houses, including approximately 16,000 social...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but it is right about the level of housing delivery. Why will the Government not allocate the money? It cannot say it does not have the money. It has it in the budget surplus and the infrastructure funds-----

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Time is up, Deputy. Please.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and it could impose a wealth tax, like the one the French people are asking for-----

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Time is up.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----after the recent French election with the Popular Front in France.

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

Patrick O'Donovan: That was a great result, was it not?

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald. Absolutely, step one is to get Tori and her mother, who is out there actively supporting her at this very distressing time, home. For this to happen, the travel ban needs to be lifted. It is the current block in terms of Tori coming home. The immediate request and demand of Ireland is that this happens. With regard to the issue of legal representation, I am...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I notice that in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery there is a very great friend of Ireland, the right honourable Trevor Mallard, who is New Zealand's ambassador to this country. I ask Members to give him a big warm welcome.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is probably the last interaction the Taoiseach and I will have for a while as I have got a new job.

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

Simon Harris: Where are you working?

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Bonjour. When the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance do not remember the 1990 World Cup, you realise you are a total aul' fella and need to get out. The important point I want to make today, in what is probably the last interaction I will have with the Taoiseach for a while, is on an issue I have raised a number of times in recent years. It is the reason I got involved in politics in...

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

Simon Harris: On what is probably our last exchange, I wish Deputy Ó Ríordáin well. His election to the European Parliament is a major milestone for him and his party. I genuinely wish him well as he continues to represent Dublin and Ireland, albeit in a different capacity. I say to all those elected to the European Parliament that everybody in the House is rooting for them. When they go...