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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024 that, pursuant to Standing Order 187, the Committee has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing provisions of the Bill in order to make an amendment to the Mental Health Act 2001, in order to increase the length of time a person can serve on...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Ceisteanna - Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Haughey: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the informal meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [26828/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27043/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the informal leaders' meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [27083/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27973/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the informal meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [28142/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. As colleagues will know, I attended an informal European Council meeting on Monday, 17 June in Brussels that largely took place over a working dinner. At this meeting European leaders took stock of the outcome of the elections for the European Parliament, and we began discussions on the key positions in the European Union...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this serious issue, which is one I discussed with the Minister for Health on Monday, I think, at the Cabinet committee on health. There may well be a particular challenge in Carrigaline and in parts of Cork but the Deputy is right to suggest that it is a more national challenge. I know the Minister for Health and his Department have given consideration to what...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Central Statistics Office, CSO, crime statistics tell us that robbery is up 18% in the first quarter of this year compared with the first quarter of last year. In my constituency, across Roscommon and Galway we have had numerous burglaries in recent weeks and months. The idea of older people who live on their own being afraid in their own homes is a very sad indictment of where we are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. No one likes the idea, by any manner or means, of any person, but particularly an older person living in isolation, being in any way fearful in their own home. The home should be a safe haven for people. I will certainly pass on the Deputy's specific comments about Roscommon and Galway and the importance of a Garda presence in rural areas to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Jackie Cahill: It is the first week of July and an impending fodder crisis is facing the livestock sector. We had an extremely long, wet winter which exhausted all existing fodder supplies. Grass growth for the spring and early summer has been roughly 30% below average. We are heading into a crisis and the mental and financial pressure farmers are under cannot be overestimated. I stress, above all, the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I know the Deputy's particular area of expertise in this area, both as a constituency TD and before his political life in this House. I take seriously what he says. This is a Government that will always support farmers. I am very conscious of how horrific the weather has been for them this year and the huge stress that has created. I have visited a number of farms with the Irish Farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Last week, the Department of Finance published a report that showed forward funding arrangements by the approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency are now central to the construction of multi-unit developments in Dublin. There are strong funding streams for social housing and cost-rental housing but no funding streams for affordable purchase. This is borne out by the statistics...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for allowing me to give consideration to this issue. I saw the report from the Department of Finance. I have also had a series of meetings with the banks this week at which I discussed the issue of development financing and how, when anyone reads the Housing Commission report, which is often misrepresented by people in this House for their own political ideology, it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On Friday, the Department of Education informed us that St. Kevin's school in Finglas West was approved for a new ASD class. This brings to 20 the total number of ASD classes opened in my area in the past four years. There is a real challenge here in that for the last nine months, parents will have applied to all 20 of those schools to try to secure a place. They will have spent nine...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. Since I came into this role, we have seen that the number of special educational needs organisers, SENOs, will increase from 73 to 120. The Deputy is correct about the issues with enrolment, with parents applying to numerous schools. Schools have their own enrolment policies and the NCSE is sometimes blind to the figures a school has...