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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: We delivered a budget yesterday that will make substantial progress. I have already outlined to the Deputy that I will be meeting directly with the family advocacy groups next week. I do not need the Deputy as an intermediary.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Thomas Gould: Why are you here?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It has been-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I will be meeting them directly and I will be working with them, the Minister of Health and the clinician who carries out the surgeries, and is now the clinical lead, to do the best thing possible. We will put every support in place. I assure the Deputy of that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That was promised before.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Another promise.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Before I start, I acknowledge the distressing escalation of conflict in the Middle East. Our thoughts and, I am sure, all our thoughts are with all those affected, with our Defence Forces in south Lebanon, their families and our citizens trapped in the region, who must be brought home. We need to see all diplomatic means exhausted to bring about peace in the region. I wish to raise with...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik for raising this important issue around child protection and child abuse and making sure we have a zero-tolerance approach to this matter in all organisations, including in State agencies, political parties and everywhere else. I could not agree more with the Deputy. The issue of child protection is the most important one. Child abuse is something that sickens...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: It would probably be addressed through something bespoke for that group of parents rather than through a change to parent's leave. The process for parent's leave is a good one and works well. I would like to see it grow. As we know, the rate of parent's leave has grown by €15. I hope to see the take-up increase in the years to come. I believe that one of the reasons take-up is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is deireadh le ceisteanna chun an Aire Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige é sin. We will now proceed to take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: On a point of order, are we getting any input into the Order of Business this week? I ask for time to be urgently set aside for Deputy McDonald to make a statement on the issue of child abuse committed by a member of Sinn Féin-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: -----and the furnishing of character references for that person by members of Deputy McDonald's team.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is not a point of order.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: It is crucial that these questions are answered in a timely fashion.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Order of Business for this week was arranged last week. The Deputy's point is not in order at this stage.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Can I ask that, when the Order of Business for next week is being discussed, we-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy can discuss anything he likes when the Order of Business is being discussed.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Colm Brophy: This is something the party opposite regularly brings to the attention of Government. It is time-sensitive and important-----