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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----about people they really do not even know? It is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am asking the Taoiseach if he will please try to do something to bring about a bit of normality to this situation in order that people cannot be telling blatant lies about other people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Well said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I ask the Taoiseach to respond within his time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Well said, indeed, Deputy Healy-Rae. I thank you for saying it. I am really sorry, as I know everybody in this House is, to hear of the abuse that the Deputy and his family had to put up, particularly in the context of the comments about and images of his late mother. That is utterly despicable and reprehensible. There is not a Member on any side of this House who does not think that....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: It is a seriously important issue. It is fair to say that impacts on nearly all of us in different ways, if we are being honest. It is an issue that impacts people right across our country. It is an issue that particularly impacts children and younger people. There is a level of misogyny and sexism, and there are really serious issues in the context of vile online abuse. People are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach. The editors of newspapers and producers of television programmes are held to account-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Yes. Absolutely. Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----in that what comes out has to be truthful. It cannot be lies. There are legal implications. Why are we allowing a situation where the social media companies can broadcast whatever and there are no repercussions? That is wrong. That is what we have to get back to. We have to get back to telling the truth and being fair in our comments. We as a society have to say that we are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Rowe for his opening statement. A couple of questions arise. Let us go back to the very large commercial developments that happened over the years. I accept many of them have been there for the best part of a generation in some cases. Mr. Rowe said 30 years and more. My limited knowledge of the civil law around this is that it is about whether a development is there without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I accept that. The anomaly here people cannot get their heads around is we have had all this happening for so long with, as Mr. Rowe says, little or nothing save the setting-up of a unit to deal with it only in the last 12 months, yet we have such a vigorous pursuit of people who have a boat on the river or who have a boat on the canal. We all know about the housing crisis in the country....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: All right. Mr. Rowe mentioned the user base earlier, I think in response to Deputy Creed. Waterways Ireland basically includes everybody, from people who walk along the river or canal to those who use it regularly to people who make their living from it. They are all part of the user base. Surely there has to be a distinction when it comes to use of the river. The "public good" delivered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is ensuring there is public access and that public access is something that is there and is free and available to everyone. If I were to put a boat in Garadice Lough in County Leitrim, which the canal runs through, Mr. Rowe is telling me there is going to be a charge for it, yet if I go up the road and put a boat in Keeldra Lough, which is not part of the canal, there will be no charge....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: Mr. Rowe talks of the €200, but he says his organisation is reviewing that in the context of all the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: -----the pressure that has come on. He says it is a while off going to the Department. How long is "a while off"? Are we talking about going into the next year or about a number of weeks or months?