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

Matt Shanahan: I did reflect. I told the Taoiseach that these were comments I was hearing on the streets. The Taoiseach may take or leave them as he wishes.

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. The Taoiseach to respond uninterrupted.

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

Simon Harris: The people of Waterford will adjudicate on the Deputy in due course.

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I will not mince my words about this issue. I will be very factual. I am going to call something out here today. I want to see what the Taoiseach, the Government and the rest of the people inside in this House think of it. Why is it becoming acceptable in the Ireland of today that people can go on social media platforms and say whatever they like about whomever they like? It can be about...

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

Simon Harris: I have to take a deep breath because the start of Deputy Shanahan's contribution was really out of order. It was fundamentally out of order because I do not ever think there is a justification for the hatred some Members of this House have experienced or for the intimidation and attacks they have experienced, online, off-line, at their homes and towards their families. I would not wish it...

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

Matt Shanahan: I offered to the Taoiseach comments that I hear all the time and, instead of addressing them, the Taoiseach offered a deflection, saying that I am trying to talk about hate speech-----

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

Simon Harris: Please.

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

Matt Shanahan: It is not about that.

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

Simon Harris: Withdraw what you said.

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

Matt Shanahan: I am reflecting to the Taoiseach what people around my constituency and in the regions are describing.

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

Simon Harris: So, you will not withdraw it.

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

Matt Shanahan: Whether he wishes to, the Taoiseach can reach back into his notes there and discuss projects-----

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

Simon Harris: I do not have any notes.

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

Matt Shanahan: -----from two and three programmes for Government ago, which he did, including the courthouse, the fire station he mentioned in Waterford, and the greenway. They are all previous to this Government. I have asked about the €44 billion of capital expenditure in this programme for Government. Where is the relative percentage for Waterford and the south east? I have met the Taoiseach...

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach and agree that cultural change is needed to stamp out and make what we have called everyday sexism, harassment and gender-based violence a thing of the past in different institutions. I welcome that the Taoiseach said that, where appropriate, criminal investigations by the Garda are under way. The question is what the Government will do now about this. What practical...

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

Simon Harris: That is an excellent idea. I will talk to the relevant Ministers as to how to take that forward. Based on what I have been told and what I read, a number of positive measures have been taken by sporting organisations in recent years, which I know the Deputy would accept and acknowledge. I do not suggest the 1990s was a very long time ago but many years have passed and a lot has happened,...

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

Matt Shanahan: As the Taoiseach and the Government contemplate the budget, which one way or another will be the last budget before we all face the people, I ask him again to attend to the parts of the country left behind. Reflecting on the French election, which has a kernel of learning for us in Ireland, like Macron's coalition of the centre ground, since 2016, we have effectively had the traditional...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik and join her in her comments on the war crimes that were carried out by targeting sick children in Ukraine yesterday. Imagine what that is like. The war in Ukraine has been going on for quite a long time but we can never allow ourselves to be in any way immune or accept what is happening, nor should we with the crimes against children happening in the Middle East. A...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It does, in fact, cost the same amount to build the home, whether it is in Waterford or Dublin. The differential is the cost and the value of the land. That is the issue here, and that it is why it is all the more scandalous, particularly in the case of Dublin city, where land values and prices are so high, that the Government and the State would so thoughtlessly hand over public land into...

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

Simon Harris: Those are figures that are clearly for Dublin City Council to provide. I presume that is where the Deputy is progressing it, and that is the right and appropriate place. However, the Deputy continues to misrepresent our position on housing. This is Government that is absolutely building and ensuring that homes are built on State-owned lands. We set up the LDA - I think the Deputy opposed...