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- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Schedule 1 agreed to.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
SCHEDULE 2
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Question proposed: "That Schedule 2 be a Schedule to the Bill."
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I wish to say something on the Schedule. I should have said it earlier but given this also will be my final opportunity to speak in this Dáil - although like everybody on the Opposition benches, I hope to be in the next one, depending on the support of our electorate and our constituents - I thank all the Deputies over the Dáil term for their co-operation in how we have debated...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I agree with the Minister and I have the same sentiments. I also will take this opportunity to thank the Ceann Comhairle. This may be his final act as Ceann Comhairle. He will be back in here to help us all with the wisdom he has got in that Chair over the years. I thank the staff in particular, for their help in the lifetime of this Dáil and hopefully, like the Minister, we will see...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Hear hear.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask the Minister to respond to the relevant points that were raised.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I also thank all the Deputies who contributed to the debate and raised various issues. I will begin with Deputy Ó Snodaigh, who raised an issue I am very familiar with because he has raised it with me on a number of occasions. It is worth putting the issue in context. We are talking about €2 million out of the €104.3 billion being...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Hear, hear.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in construction all my life, with over 30 years of experience, and am still in construction on a daily basis. I start work on site at 7 o'clock in the morning because most of the Departments I deal with do not open until 9 a.m. or 9.30 a.m. I get my day's work done in the morning before I come to work at all. That keeps me in tune with inflation, labour and material costs and...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to delay this Bill any further. I understand it needs to be passed notwithstanding the debates we might have about it. It is a little bit odd that anybody would oppose it because this is money we have to have spent to keep the show on the road. We might want to spend it differently or spend more but we need this money to cover the costs of public services and so on that...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Deputy sure?
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am very sure. The secret service ended when the IRB eventually in 1948 collapsed itself. That was the only secret service, or those who thought they were the secret services at that stage. There may have been people operating, as I mentioned, in Britain in the 1920s. That was it. I am not going to delay the passage of the Bill. This is a procedural matter but the procedures beforehand...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I certainly support Deputy Ó Snodaigh. It is hard to say that we are debating this here. Debating is about scrutinising and passing it. The Minister said it is before committees and always accountable. That €2 million can be in this area and we do not know what it is about. I am picking up on what the Minister said in reply to me when I spoke to him first about the...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right in what he has said.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I am right.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I know I am right. I am wary of making points with absolute certainty but the point I am making to the Deputy is that the State is directly involved in building homes. It does so through local authorities. The majority of those 11,938 homes would have been built directly by local authorities, which is the State. That is the argument I am making to the Deputy. To suggest the State is not...
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)
Question put and declared carried.
- Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)