Results 421-440 of 1,058,622 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Margaret Conlon OR speaker:Patrick Costello OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----the Government has sat back and allowed this farce and fiasco to deepen.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It does not matter what answer I give to the House. It does not matter how I look to answer Deputy McDonald today. Her response is always going to be the same - to find any answer insufficient and to find any evidence of progress or an attempt to deal with the issue not good enough. I outlined in my answer to her that we do not accept as sufficient or satisfactory where this project stands...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I want to ask about political accountability for what is happening with the children's hospital or, rather, what is not happening. I read the coverage of the letter sent by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to the Taoiseach about the latest delays relating to the building of the new hospital. Perhaps that correspondence could more accurately be described as a letter from the Minister to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this issue. Week after week in the Dáil, she and other Deputies, including Government Deputies, raise the ongoing concerns relating to the need to meet the healthcare needs of sick young girls and boys and the improvement we have to make to how healthcare is provided to our youngest. That is why the national children's hospital is so important and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yet again, we see not just a grossly incompetent Government, but one that is entirely unprepared to take responsibility, much less to be accountable, for anything. It is the board's fault. It is the contractor's fault. Of course, it is Sinn Féin's fault. How could it not be? Let me recite this again. On 17 occasions, the completion date has fallen through. There is an overspend...
- Prelude (24 Sep 2024)
- Prelude (24 Sep 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (24 Sep 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (24 Sep 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The debacle surrounding the construction of the national children's hospital continues. At the weekend, we learned that the hospital's completion date will be missed yet again. We are now looking at a completion date of 2026, and we cannot even be sure of that. A report from KPMG published this morning calls into question whether the hospital will be ready to open even when it is built....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)
Thomas Byrne: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of the Ardmore-Dungarvan route. For the sake of the written record, I will leave out the first number of paragraphs of the script, as they describe the school bus scheme in some detail and may not be of major relevance. I will discuss the school transport 2030 report, which was published this year and is the largest review of the school transport...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know it is under assessment, as I have kicked up blue bloody murder to have it assessed. It is only a matter of time. One would want to see it to believe it. It is a main stretch of the N25, a single carriageway with a hard shoulder on either side. The cars do not have any place to pull up. There is a small privately owned car park. Many of the cars are pulling up on the hard...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)
Thomas Byrne: There has been an increase in the number of tickets issued this year, with more than 140,000 issued. The numbers travelling on our bus services have increased significantly over the past number of years, at 38% over a five-year period. As the Deputy and I have both highlighted, Bus Éireann is currently assessing the route and will continue to ensure the safety, and must ensure the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 7.37 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 24 Meán Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 7.37 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 24 September 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)
Thomas Byrne: I want to thank the Deputies for raising this serious matter on the upcoming regulation on what are called the XL bully-type dogs, which I think are recognised in some countries as a breed, and in others may not be. That will come into effect on 1 October. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, announced a ban on the XL bully dogs in the interest of public safety and human safety following...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will reiterate that we are 12 days away and none of us has seen those regulations. That is why there is an urgency about a delay. I have some more questions. The Minister of State mentioned issues such as exemption certificates. We do not know yet why, unlike the UK, no third-party public liability insurance is required for exemptions. We do not know what the conditions of exemptions...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)
Chris Andrews: Bans do not work. This ban is populist, and it is being done with a view to the election that is coming up. Why is the Minister of State not making sure that the existing laws are being implemented and enforced? This Government has been in place for five years and there has been no dent in the illegal puppy farms. I find it ironic that Ireland will have a wolfhound on its passports, given...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)
Thomas Byrne: The Government recognises that some people may not agree with the decision, and I also note that the Deputies are coming at this from different perspectives. Both of them have raised reasonable issues and I have no doubt about that. To reply to Deputy Andrews, the reality is that these dogs have only been bred in the last number of decades. They are not as ancient as the Irish...