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- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Duncan Smith: It feels like an overdue relief that this Bill has finally made it to the floor of the Dáil. It is long overdue and it has been a long road to get here and rightfully there are concerns from all of us as to whether this legislation can be progressed in however long left there is left in the lifetime of this Government. To make it the first key legislation to be discussed after the...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: At the outset, I acknowledge that in the main, the Bill is positive. It is encouraging to see the Government adopt many of the recommendations of the expert review group. The Bill is a positive advancement in supporting those with mental health challenges. However the delay in publishing the Bill is disappointing. The Government had four years to produce a Bill. To do so in the last...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Pa Daly: Before I mention CAMHS and aspects of the Bill, I wish to raise the situation regarding the Ocean View nursing home in Camp, County Kerry. I attended a briefing by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation earlier. One of the calls in its pre-budget submission was the operation and delivery of long-term care and to reverse the privatisation of long-term care. As the Minister of State...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Butler: By HIQA.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Pa Daly: By HIQA, and the HSE has now come in and is the current provider of care. HIQA did commend Theresa Winter and all her staff for providing first-rate care for the residents there. All the staff in that nursing home are directly employed by the HSE now. The families have received letters. I have a copy of one here which says that it was necessary to make alternative arrangements for the...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Mark Ward: While I acknowledge and welcome the publication of this Bill and recognise the hard work done by the Minister of State, and her officials to get to this stage, it is long overdue. A general scheme of this legislation was approved in 2015 but was not produced until 2021. I was a member of the Sub-Committee on Mental Health that did the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill in November 2021....
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Tá an-chuid céille ag baint leis an méid atá ráite ag an Aire Stáit ansin. Is é sin deireadh le ráitis maidir le breithiúnas Chúirt Bhreithiúnais an Aontais Eorpaigh, CBAE, sa chás maidir le cúnamh stáit d'Apple.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Butler: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As Minister of State for mental health and older people, I am pleased to introduce the Mental Health Bill to the House. The Bill has been long in gestation. A commitment to review the Mental Health Act 2001 “informed by human rights standards and in consultation with service users, carers and other stakeholders” was...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: The Apple tax ruling shows who this country is run for. This is a country run by the rich for the rich. We are a wealthy country but working-class people and communities and rural communities see very little of this. The top 1% in Ireland has €232 billion in wealth whereas the bottom 50% owns €9 billion. There is an inequality crisis in Ireland. There is a deep need for...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: First, if we are to build houses, we need infrastructure, water and sewerage, so money has to go towards that, probably a few billion euros. Second, at a meeting in Limerick, we discussed the designated maritime area plan, DMAP, for offshore wind but the Government had not done anything about it. If that is the opening to the huge potential of wind turbines 30 miles off our coast, we need a...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Wynne, who is sharing time with Deputy MacSharry.
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: The way in which this case was handled points to the wider issue of a culture problem, the same culture problem that we have seen play out in RTÉ and the same culture problem that saw €19 million of funding redirected from vital children’s services, and we still do not even know where that went. The pattern is fast emerging. The Government spent a record €2.4...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Rather than thinking too locally or too prudently, for the first time, this and the next Government need to think strategically. We have talked for 50 years about balanced regional development and Deputy Harkin and others have raised the infrastructure deficit on the western seaboard. Never did we have a situation where we had money we did not want and, it seems, did not need, yet there is...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Neale Richmond: I thank all the Deputies who have spoken today from such a vast array of positions on this vital topic. The Apple case has been a high-profile, long-running case. I am glad that we had the opportunity to discuss it at some length in the House and it was pertinent that we did so. We have heard today from Deputies addressing the history of the case, the reasons behind taking the case, the...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: From a Government view and a country point of view, we did the right thing in supporting the companies in the first instance. Of course, the court made its decision. In other words, we won twice because we backed the companies and, at the same time, we won the case we were not looking to win. Now we have this money, the one thing I would advise is prudence. We should spend money on...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Michael Collins: I pay tribute to Apple, which has an incredible workforce of 6,000 - mainly in Cork. This is a big issue today. We praise the company for what it has done for the people. There are many ways this money could be spent. It is a bit like the Bible. We are spreading lots with our clothes. We should look at investment in nursing homes instead of closing them. We should reverse the decision...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: This is from an 88-year-old man from Bruree, County Limerick. He told me that as his TD, he wanted me to speak up in the Dáil about using Apple's unpaid tax money for building public and affordable homes and to say that the next Government has a chance to finally tackle our biggest shame as nation, which the fact that so many people are forced into debt, despair or poverty because we do...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Health services are totally underfunded and understaffed at the coal face. We need more GPs, residential care for people with physical and intellectual disabilities and hospital beds. People on waiting lists are suffering agony, pain and anxiety. Many people would have lost their eyesight were it not for the hundreds of people we bused to Belfast. Infrastructural work for sewerage and...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I have one and a half minutes to deal with this complex issue, which is barely enough time to take a bite of an apple and trust that it is not rotten. I would use the word "rotten" regarding the deal that was done, which goes back as far as 1991 and 2007. Earlier this month, the ECJ told us that Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid, which Ireland is required to recover. The behaviour of the...