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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and what the Taoiseach is presiding over. No matter how much they try to disentangle from each other, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party are one crowd. They might as well rename themselves and get a new party because that is what they are. The Taoiseach does not want to take on the Greens because they get ministerial posts and the posts of Taoiseach and Tánaiste for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: They liked that Deputy. I was in Kerry and there was nothing speedy about it actually. I was there for most of the day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You did not stay long

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: Sorry now, hang on a second. The Deputy has to give me a bit of a chance. I was there and indeed when was I driving by on the road, I saw this very large portacabin-type thing - I do not know what it was - with Deputy Healy-Rae's face emblazened across it asking people to vote-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a lorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: -----so he is clearly ready for battle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Gerald Nash: It was a lorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: No, it was not a lorry I saw. The Deputy is clearly ready for battle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We know what it is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Gerald Nash: There was probably no planning permission for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: We will check that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It did not cost €326,000. You put more bicycles in here than in the bicycle shed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I welcome the retired nurses from Kerry and thank them for their service in the health service. I will certainly have a word with them in a moment about some of the issues the Deputy has raised. I am not across the detail of that and it does not tally with my information but I will have a word with them in a moment. When it comes to the health service, I accept of course that it has to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I wish to begin by expressing my appreciation, and, I am sure, that of everybody in this House, of everybody who has worked or is working or volunteering with Templemore Community Services Centre and indeed day centres right across Ireland. We are lucky to have around 300 day centres and around 300 meals on wheels locations right across the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Lowry: I thank the Taoiseach for his consideration of this proposal. Tomorrow morning, the HSE will meet representatives of the local action committee. It is important that when they put forward a proposal to the Department of Health, it is received favourably and some funding is provided immediately. I am very familiar with the local group who work behind the scenes. They are very dedicated,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I know time is getting short around here but that was very quick and efficient. I stood up only a minute ago but the Deputy has said the HSE and committee are having the meeting tomorrow. That worked out well. This is an important issue. I am pleased to hear from the Deputy that the meeting between the HSE and Templemore Community Services Centre will take place tomorrow. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome to Dáil Éireann almost 30 retired nurses who devoted their lives to working in hospitals and caring for the sick, and I commend them on the service they gave. I remind the Taoiseach that these are the very people who came back to help during the Covid period, in 2021 and 2022. The Government is now taking and demanding money out of their pensions. The Government is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: That is okay.