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

Mattie McGrath: It is not a hospital anymore.

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Minister answer.

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

Heather Humphreys: I will move on to the question the Deputy asked. I know the important role family carers play and am fully committed to supporting them in that role. I meet them regularly in my Department, including at the annual carers forum. I have heard first-hand over many years of the wonderful work they do under extremely difficult circumstances; probably the most difficult is where mothers have...

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

Mattie McGrath: It is unacceptable that carers have to wait until next July, six months after everybody else, to get their increases. We can all be patronising and talk about what they do but they need the money now, not next July or August. Fully abolishing the carer's allowance means test is recommended by research from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. That is crucial. Once-off payments...

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

Heather Humphreys: I want to be very clear. This amendment is to ensure that if there is a massive energy crisis, we would have storage facilities for LNG if required. I am talking about a massive energy crisis. It has nothing to do with fracking. This Government is opposed to fracking. My former colleague, Tony McLoughlin, brought forward a Bill to ban fracking. This is planning for all eventualities....

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

Ivana Bacik: No.

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

Verona Murphy: Carers from all over County Wexford have asked me to make their position known. I have had calls from Duncannon, Duncormick, Kilmore, Rosslare, Oilgate, Enniscorthy, New Ross, Wexford town and all over County Wexford. They have asked me to represent the hurt, rage, disbelief and disappointment they feel at this Government’s choice not to reorganise and recognise their contribution...

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

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I can be accused of many things but speaking out of both sides of my mouth is not normally what I do. I have been engaging with carers since I became Minister for Social Protection in 2020. I must say again that family carers play a hugely important role and I have been committed to supporting them in that role. I have worked hard in recent...

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

Verona Murphy: That does not mean they get it. It is means-tested.

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

Heather Humphreys: I am increasing the domiciliary care allowance to €360 per month and, most importantly, I am expanding the carer's allowance means test to €625 per week for a single person and €1,250 per week for a couple. These changes will mean that I have effectively doubled the income limits for carer's allowance over the lifetime of this Government, enabling thousands more carers...

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

Verona Murphy: Those were the carers’ words. I fully understand why they believe the Minister is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. It is a means test. It is on the means of someone else’s income, rather than that of the carer who is actually delivering the care. This is means-testing the income of the household. It may be means in which the carer does not even share. We are...

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

Heather Humphreys: I am well aware of the figures but there is a process here. Even the Deputy will accept that. I have been engaging regularly with the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, the NCSE and the local ETB, which I feel will also play an important role in this process. I can tell the Deputy about all of the fine buildings and investment that has gone into Monaghan in terms of education, including...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Is that a "Yes"?

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

Heather Humphreys: I can assure the Deputy that I am committed to providing a school in Monaghan but we have a process. I cannot click my fingers and produce a school. There is a process and I am engaging with the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on that process.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: So that is a "Yes".

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

Heather Humphreys: There is a process.

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

Ivana Bacik: Today I am forced to raise again our concerns about the Government’s 925-page Planning and Development Bill. It should be receiving adequate consideration tonight but we know it will not because the Government is giving us just three hours to consider 177 pages of amendments to this extremely significant legislation. These are amendments we have never had the opportunity to consider...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: What about your bike shed?

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

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy rightly says, the Planning and Development Bill will voted upon in the Dáil tonight. This is after 170 hours of debate. The Bill is hugely significant and has been under work for years. It is vital in terms of streamlining our planning process. I think everybody will accept that. As the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has said, and I agree with him, the Bill will be...

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

Ivana Bacik: I cannot accept the line that the planning Bill has been considered in full. As the Minister knows, I was very engaged with it on Committee and Report Stages. This is one of the most substantial pieces of legislation the Oireachtas has ever considered but we certainly do not have enough time tonight to debate the massive number of new amendments that we have not had an opportunity to debate...