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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: It is needed to help build, to help care, to help teach and to help deliver a public service. Today, in our health service and hospitals there are 576 people on trolleys. Our trolley count is a crude, but powerful, indicator of the health of our health service, and 576 people on trolleys on the first day of October is a near record for the first day of this month. We need new staff but...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: Some 20% of kids, one in five children in this country, have to go without a new winter coat this year, yet more was written over the summer about the tax implications for a tiny number of families who stand to inherit businesses than how a party that promised two years ago to fix child poverty might consign that scandal to history. The Minister, Deputy Burke, spent most of the spring and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As a party we know the challenges that farmers, fishermen and rural dwellers face. Not only can agriculture deliver on food and decarbonisation objectives, we firmly believe the industry has a role to play in decarbonising other sectors of business and industry, delivering on biodiversity, nature restoration and energy security. Farmers in ACRES are in limbo. An announcement has been...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is why we have to create a country to which they can come back. Agriculture operates on an island-wide basis and our commission on the family farm would include representatives and stake holders from all 32 counties. Under the Government, we have seen the imbalance in regional development laid bare. It is true that the eastern seaboard, Dublin and other cities must be supported but...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will share time with Deputy Duncan Smith. The Ireland of 2024 is a country of winners and losers. It is a country of contrasts and contradictions. It is a paradox of plenty, if ever there was one. We have record corporation tax receipts and record numbers of our citizens without a home. We have the highest number of people ever at work, yet one in five of these workers subsists on...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That is not true.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This impacts on patients and healthcare staff throughout the State. The people in Mayo want me to ask how many more projects are handled in the same manner. How much more of our money is wasted? How much more is this Government hiding from us? How many times is commercial sensitivity used to cover up costly mismanagement of projects and the granting of open-ended, undefined contracts?...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Again, there was no accountability. Everyone scattered. We have to have a public inquiry, which the taxpayer will pay for, but we have to find out the truth. We know what happened. We know how they have been failed by this and previous Governments. All of the measures introduced by the Government today are, by necessity, dealing with the fiscal space in the here and now but I do not...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----to cover beds, urgent care, women's health, older people, mental health and national strategies. This is a paltry sum.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a joke.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: There is going to be chaos in our health system next year, just as there was each year before because the Government is deliberately not making the types of improvements and reforms required with the funding that is necessary. It stands in stark contrast to Sinn Féin's comprehensive proposals. We have a plan to reform the health service, boost capacity, train the workforce of tomorrow...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: We did.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is exactly what we did.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ----- to protect people from the cost-of-living crisis in the here and now, to make a lasting difference in people's lives and to tackle social exclusion and poverty. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, talked about child poverty being a priority of the Government. Some 230,000 children are currently experiencing material deprivation. This is an increase of almost 30,000 children since 2022. If...