Results 461-480 of 1,061,800 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:John McGuinness OR speaker:David Cullinane)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: -----from the delivery of the children's hospital. Deputy Bacik asks what steps the Government is taking to ensure this hospital is delivered. As she rightly says, the most important thing now is how we learn from what has happened, how we get the hospital open and how we get it providing care to sick young children. What steps are we taking in this regard? Two main steps are being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Clearly, children need this hospital built. We all need and want to see it built. We want to see it open and delivering the necessary services. It is just not good enough, however, for Deputy Donohoe, as Minister for public expenditure, or for the health Minister to simply say what the board is doing and not to reassure people what the Government is doing to ensure an outcome here. I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: The board is a representative of the State here. The board is taking action on behalf of the Government. The Deputy knows well that that is the case. She is making a claim regarding the Government not being involved in this despite the fact that the board of the hospital is acting on behalf of the Government. As regards the charges the Deputy made regarding the performance of our...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Having signed weak contracts with very weak levers available to the board-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy, the time is up.
- 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...