Results 501-520 of 1,173,119 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:John Carty OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Ivana Bacik OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Réada Cronin OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Jackie Cahill OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Thomas Byrne OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Michael Lowry OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Gino Kenny OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú) in 'Committee meetings'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his constructive response. A Cheann Comhairle, I apologise for my language earlier but I am sick of taking insults and abuse on cycling from Deputies who believe that God above is in charge of the weather and who have no record of taking the climate crisis seriously. I have no time for that nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You would want to be sure you are not going to the pumps for diesel. You will not build a million houses either. We have enough of that now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I have no time for that nonsense when we are----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, can we stop bickering?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: She referred to me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Stop bickering, please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, I want to address the Taoiseach's response to me. Government policy is taking teachers for granted, notwithstanding his response. We still have some of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in Europe. The Government promised a citizens' assembly on the future of education which seems to have been quietly dropped. We want to know when the Taoiseach will address the teacher...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Very shortly we are probably going to ask the people of Ireland to elect a citizens' assembly called the Dáil. I do not want to mislead the Deputy or the House on that. It is unlikely that there will be any further citizens' assemblies proposed by this Government. I would like to say on the record of the House that I do see merit in a citizens' assembly on education. We have had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government now for nearly 14 years, joined at the hip with Fianna Fáil for the last eight. We are on the eve of a general election and we still have a very serious crisis in our hospitals and across the wider health service. On the Taoiseach's watch, accident and emergency departments are dangerously overcrowded, the trolley crisis has become a year-round problem,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising important issues in our health service and recruitment into our health service. Of course, the reason we talk about numbers of people working in our health service is because we all want to see improved patient outcomes and improved patient wait times. I will dwell on that in a moment. A bit of context that is important when we are discussing health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Where are they? In offices?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: She does not need any help. Deputy McDonald is right that there is an importance to the whole issue of safe staffing and the safe staffing framework. Indeed, I would have worked on this when I was in the Department of Health. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, has done huge work on this. I am pleased to tell the House and, more importantly, people watching at home that the safe nursing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about Kerry? The Taoiseach did not mention it at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will get you a figure for Kerry but that has gone up, too, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The figure has gone down.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Wait now, please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: No, it has not. It has gone way up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Let me tell the Deputy this, because it is too important to shout and interrupt here. In terms of waiting times, it means that we are seeing waiting times fall. They are not falling in the North, they are not falling in the UK, they are not falling in most of Europe but they are falling here in Ireland. Wait times for outpatient services have reduced from 13.2 months in July 2021 to seven...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Here is the context for you, Taoiseach. When the Government came to office there was a crisis in healthcare, and as it leaves office there is a crisis in healthcare, and everybody knows it. Those are the facts.