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

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: People are being denied disability allowance and are not being given oral hearings. Every case I am working on gets a standard reply asking for further information. I respect that this change happened during Covid, but it is important that hearings be brought back, as this approach is affecting people and their illnesses. They need to have these hearings. I ask that the Taoiseach examine...

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

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising these matters. As a constituency TD, I know the importance of the oral hearing, whatever way that takes place, be it virtually or in person, in terms of the person or someone on his or her behalf having the ability to put across the case in a way we cannot always capture in written form on an application form. I will seek an update from the Minister, Deputy...

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

Mairead Farrell: Third level education is important, but it is also costly. One of the costs is the student contribution charge, which increased considerably during the austerity period. It should be removed fully, which Sinn Féin has committed to doing. The current Taoiseach reduced the charge by €1,000 in recent years, but that reduction was temporary. We need to see it become a permanent...

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

Simon Harris: My thanks to Deputy Farrell for raising this issue. She and I agree on the need to reduce the costs of going to college and barriers to education. As she said, we made progress on reducing fees, albeit on a cost-of-living and, therefore, temporary basis. Even as Taoiseach, any announcement in respect of these matters will be a matter for budget day, but I will revert to the Deputy.

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

Matt Shanahan: Everyone in the House will recognise the bravery of Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh who waived her right to anonymity in a traumatic trial. An issue highlighted in the case related to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, which allows counsellors’ notes as admissible evidence. Victims’ rights groups have highlighted this threat of admissibility as making victims think twice before...

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

Simon Harris: I agree with Deputy Shanahan fully and I join with him in praising her courage. I thank Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh for speaking out yesterday after enduring the most horrific and unimaginable assault. There are no words to capture what she went through. Her words when she spoke out yesterday, including about the need for men to speak out and the lack of men speaking out on this, are words...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are out of time, but I am going to take 30-second questions from the three remaining Deputies.

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

Michael Collins: Shannonvale is a picturesque community with considerable potential outside Clonakilty, but for 26 years, it has been left abandoned by the State. It has an appalling sewage overflow crisis. Today, a local councillor, Mr. Daniel Sexton, visited the area and told me that the local playground was closed and locked off to the public due to raw sewage on the ground. There is a stinking...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach will know that, in the Irish fishing community, there is a view that there is one rule for super factory ships and super trawlers and another for inshore and island fishers. A recent incident reported in the Mail on Sunday highlighted the serious failure to enforce Common Fisheries Policy rules in respect of the vessel MFV Afrika on 14 March. I ask that the Taoiseach have this...

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

Verona Murphy: A magnificent new building in Maudlintown, County Wexford, is soon to be the new home of a women’s refuge. If I could get a response to my question in writing, I would be happy. Is there a guarantee that funding will be available to provide safe and accessible services to women and children who are victims and survivors of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence? Will there be...

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

Simon Harris: I do intend to make progress on this very shortly. I welcome Finola Cassidy, who has, from her perspective, become an all-too-frequent visitor to this House. It is always good to see her. I thank her for the way she engages. We are committed to the continued support of the health and personal social service needs of Irish thalidomide survivors. I have been engaging with Government...

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Ceann Comhairle, the Taoiseach and party leaders for their very kind good wishes for Deputy Catherine Murphy and me. We very much appreciate them. I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach last month, that is, changes in Revenue's rules about the taxation of GP income, which very much affect GP charities. I am thinking, in particular, of a charity run by Dr....

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Shortall. I acknowledge this is the second time she has raised this. She raised it with me last month and I spoke to the then Minister for Finance about it. My understanding is that the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, has done likewise and that the Department of Finance is examining the issue. However, I...

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

Bríd Smith: The waste-management companies have said plastic bottles and cans are the most valuable items in the household green bins and that, because they do not get them any more, they want to put up the price of the collection of these bins. The Taoiseach did not answer Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's question. Will he countenance the increase in the price of green bin collection because of the policy...

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

Simon Harris: I answered that question the last time. That is not currently the Government's plan. On the specific issues, we do need to have an evidence base here rather than just accept what a waste company, with the greatest respect to it, or any other organisation says. The charges applied by waste management companies are managed by those companies but they are subject to compliance with...

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

Peadar Tóibín: Vincent Kearney, RTÉ's current northern correspondent, believes the PSNI attempted to identify sources he worked with while with the BBC. His case came to light when two other journalists made similar allegations, namely that the PSNI had recorded their phone calls. On two occasions when I was talking to the journalists in the north of Ireland, the phone calls dropped, and immediately...

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

Simon Harris: I am conscious of commenting on the issue. I thank Deputy Tóibín for raising it but I have no knowledge of it. Obviously, these are very serious matters. If the Deputy wishes, I am happy to correspond with him on the matter and raise it with the relevant authorities.

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

Mattie McGrath: The people of Cashel lost their medical services in Our Lady's to Clonmel back in the 1980s. They have been waiting and waiting for a new 60-bed community unit in Cashel. We expected it to be started at this stage, but, hey presto, the authorities decided the site was not big enough at St. Patrick's Hospital. We all believed it was. Now the authorities are supposed to be searching for a...

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

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. As he will recall, in 2016 the then Government put in place a system to rebuild 90 CNUs the length and breadth of the country. Forty-eight of these have been completed. The one in Clonmel, which the Deputy visited with me recently, will be completed by the end of the year. On the one in Cashel, the estates section is currently considering a site. We...

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

Joan Collins: In May, there was a report on the two-tier system for cancer treatment, the issue being the two-year difference in the approval times for reimbursement of new cancer drugs of the public and private systems. As I said at the time, there should be no differences in people's ability to gain access to life-saving treatment based on how much money they have. I am sure the Minister of State...