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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will suspend the House if people do not have a bit of manners. The Taoiseach to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: We are up to seven or eight issues. In the limited time available to me, I will do my best to help the Deputy. First, the challenges he outlined have nothing whatsoever to do with immigration, including the shortage of GPs and the like. That does not stand up to scrutiny. The same is true of the issues in the hospitality sector and the like. In fact, many parts of the hospitality sector...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You do not show it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Sorry, Deputy, the way this works is you ask seven questions in one and then I try to answer them. In the budget, we did our best to respond to and support those businesses. I know how important tourism and hospitality are to Killarney and County Kerry. Even as recently as today, the Cabinet considered the detail of the €170 million power up scheme. Under this scheme, all retail...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: In respect of Donegal County Council and the specific issue the Deputy raised, which has just come into the public domain, I will ask the Minister to revert to him and to engage with the local authority. I take the point about not wishing to see any further slippage and the importance of adhering to timelines, and I will certainly keep a very close eye on that. I think we have a bit of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many businesses and people in Killarney and elsewhere in Kerry are very disappointed that VAT was not reduced in the budget. The failure to do this has traumatised a lot of people. Indeed, in College Street, Killarney, last Saturday morning, a man came over to the door of my car in the pouring rain to highlight his disappointment. Many businesses were clinging on and hoping they would get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: Will you stop blaming everything on immigrants? It is disgraceful. He is blaming immigrants for everything.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, will you please let the speaker continue?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are on the back foot all the time trying to get funding for roads. The Killarney bypass has been going on for over 24 years. I am asking the Taoiseach to put money into this next year. People are parked in their cars on all the roads into Killarney. The Blackwater Bridge Road from Blackwater Bridge to Sneem was built for horses and carts 200 years ago. What was done? A cycleway was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Pringle for raising this matter. Yes, I do acknowledge that I hear the frustrations of your constituents as articulated by you. You have made specific reference to claims or information in respect of Donegal County Council which I have yet to see. I will certainly ask the Minister for housing to pursue them with the local authority and to revert to you directly. I would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The Taoiseach outlined the process whereby IS 465 is going to be amended. No doubt it is going to be extremely slow. Already in his response, he outlined that it was to be published in quarter 3 but now it is quarter 4. Who is to say it is not going to be quarter 1 or 2 of next year? Homeowners are going to be suffering on under this existing scheme for a long time and for the foreseeable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Your cynicism knows no bounds.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Tell me which of the payments you do not want, please, and let me know. Any other Opposition parties can email me at simon.harris@oireachtas.ie and let me know me what payments they do not want. I would really like to hear from them in relation to that. I stand by every single decision we made in the budget last week. This was a budget that did a number of things. It provided a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want the Taoiseach to put in place long-term supports and changes, not temporary measures. Let us be very clear about that. The Government's failure to invest where it is needed most has real consequences for people. I will give the Taoiseach just one example. Gaelcholáiste Reachrann is on the northside of Dublin in my constituency. It is a great school with very dedicated staff....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: What I say to them is this Government is delivering a record number of new schools and new school extensions. The Department of Education has a record budget for capital. Throughout the country people can see new schools being built. I will ask the Minister for Education to engage directly with Deputy O'Callaghan on the specific Gaelcholáiste he referenced in his constituency. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Deputies: It is from the ESRI.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Excuse me. Deputy O'Callaghan does not need any help. I listened to them talk on the radio about the benefits of the pouches. The school principals have seen a big transformation. The schools in Northern Ireland have benefited from such a scheme as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Taoiseach disagree with the ESRI?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: In recent hours, the online news publication, The Ditch, has revealed further controversy surrounding the Government's failing defective blocks scheme. It has emerged that in more than 20 cases, a Donegal County Council-operated portal had altered the recommendations of the homeowners' engineers. What I find interesting, or perhaps more appropriately described as disturbing, is that in each...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: We often have an argy-bargy in this House, but on this issue, there is a broad consensus that we need to do more to support our carers. I acknowledge that, and it is why I have outlined a number of the steps the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, has taken and that I am proud of those steps because I know they have made a real difference because I have met the people who are benefiting from them....