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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....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Instead of investing in long-term sustainable supports in the budget, the Government splashed cash on temporary measures. Today we learned the dates that those ten payments will be made. Most of them will be made before 22 November and the remainder will be made by early December. The Government parties are cock-a-hoop with that schedule because it is right around when most of us expect to...

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

Simon Harris: I would love to know which of the cost-of-living payments that will be paid to people in all of our constituencies between now and Christmas the Deputy would like us to cancel. If he would let me know, I would like to hear those proposals. Does he want me to stop the double child benefit payment in the first week of November? Does he want me to stop the double child benefit payment in the...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I visited Crumlin yesterday, as it happens, and spoke to a number of families who have children and young people with autism. We spoke about lots of things such as school places and so on. The one issue that came up with them and that I hear again and again - it is not recent; it is a long-standing issue - is the means test for the carer's allowance. I spoke to one woman yesterday who...

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

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Carers do extraordinary work all across Ireland. They show incredible dedication to vulnerable loved ones they care for: parents who care for children and young adults with complex needs, those who look after their elderly parents and those who care for family members with disabilities. Caring is work done with love, but it is work. It is 24-7 every day and every night non-stop. Carers do...

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

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. I begin by recognising, as she did, the very important role carers play in society. We all know it from our families and communities and there are widespread views across the House and society about the need to continue to do all we can to support our carers. I note the likes of Family Carers Ireland, a representative group for family...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Question put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 74; Níl, 47; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Mick Barry and Thomas Pringle.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Tá Cathal Berry, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Mary Butler, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Seán Canney, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Michael Collins, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Peter Fitzpatrick, Joe...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Question declared carried.