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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I will certainly undertake to look into it because I know a little about it from my time in that Department. I was down in the Cork College of Further Education and Training and made aware of the horticultural course. I am trying to remember if I visited the actual facility in Skibbereen. I am not sure. I could have, because I was involved in a number of discussions about horticulture in...

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

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

Mary Lou McDonald: For the past year, the Government has assured us that the proposition on the future funding of RTÉ would be brought before the Dáil before the summer recess. We have just over a week to go. In the 20 months to April of this year, more than €500,000 has been paid in TV licence fines by ordinary people. In that same time, almost 5,000 people received a conviction for...

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

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, and I thank the media committee for the work members across parties have put into the RTÉ issue over a sustained period. I look forward to reading their report and recommendations. I particularly thank the Chair, Deputy Niamh Smyth. I assure the Deputy that there is action on this. The Tánaiste, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and I met...

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

Gerald Nash: Becton Dickinson announced that it is to close its plant in Drogheda, County Louth. It made that announcement approximately an hour and a half ago, and 170 jobs will be lost. Here is the killer. It is Drogheda's only IDA-backed manufacturing plant of scale. The Taoiseach knows that Drogheda is Ireland's largest town. It is Ireland's next city. It needs investment. It is on the floor at...

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

Simon Harris: I am sorry to hear about those job losses and my immediate thoughts are with workers and families affected, as I know are the Deputy's. I will of course work with him on this, as we have done in the past. I think the Minister for State, Deputy Higgins, was in Drogheda this week with regard to the regional enterprise plans. We remain committed to doing everything we can to support the town....

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

Gerald Nash: Help create the jobs. It is a two-way street.

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

Simon Harris: I take the point about the bad news received in Drogheda today. I am happy to meet with the Deputy. As he knows, I am scheduled to meet shortly with the group of enterprise stakeholders who have come together in Drogheda. They have a plan and a view and I will follow up to arrange that.

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

Holly Cairns: In early May, I received some shocking figures that revealed that 4,785 young people were waiting to be seen by primary care psychology services. That is in counties Cork and Kerry alone. Since then, I have been trying to get to the bottom of how long these people have been waiting. In response to my follow-up parliamentary questions, the HSE informed me that, disgracefully, of those young...

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

Simon Harris: I am reading a note on this. I thank Deputy Cairns for raising this serious issue. I am told, specifically with regard to CHO 4, which is Cork and Kerry, that the HSE has advised that data showed an increased referral rate across the region of 63%, specifically for primary care psychology waiting lists. There seems to be a particular challenge in this region that I do not believe is...

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

Holly Cairns: There is also a recruitment ban.

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

Simon Harris: -----but I will speak with the Minister and come back to the Deputy with the response.

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

Bríd Smith: Aer Lingus announced today that it is cancelling a further 76 flights, which is on top of 392 already cancelled. I do not think anybody welcomes the disruption, uncertainty or confusion that this dispute has caused. At the same time, while the two sides, IALPA and the company, go into the Labour Court today, we learn that Lynne Embleton, the CEO, received €300,000 in shares and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I think there is a disconnect between the Taoiseach's rhetoric and the reality on the ground. For people listening to this debate, it is like he is talking about an alternative universe in many ways. I heard him talk about another task force. There is nearly a Father Ted element to that - is there anything to be said for another task force on this? There is something to be said about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Let me start and see where I can agree with the Deputy. We need more gardaí; that is a statement of fact. That is why we are putting a huge focus on Garda recruitment and retention. He will also see more measures from us this month on that. Regarding roads policing, I have met the Garda Commissioner and the assistant Garda commissioner with responsibility for roads policing and of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: That is the purpose of gardaí - to enforce the law, but they are not there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Let us not just say everything is down to the gardaí. When getting behind the wheel of a car, we all have individual important responsibilities. The second issue on which I agree with the Deputy is the issue of sentencing. While we might not agree on how we get there, we have set up the Judicial Council under the Judicial Council Act 2019. A body of work is currently under way on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Collins: The horticulture industry was worth an estimated €566 million in 2023. The industry covers a broad and diverse range, including mushrooms, potatoes, field crops, protected fruit and vegetables, outdoor soft and top fruit, hardy nursery stock, protected crops, Christmas trees, cut foliage, outdoor flowers, bulbs and turf grass. However, Ireland imports approximately 85% of our fruit...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising this important matter. I note he raised the issue of the horticulture course in Skibbereen with me previously in this House. I have done a bit of research on which I will engage with him in a moment. There is huge importance in investing in talent and in our people. We need to have an education system that has multiple pathways for people to reach their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response. I certainly agree with him on the need to move away from an emergency response and from a reliance on the private sector to provide accommodation for those seeking refuge, but we have seen no sign of urgency from Government on those two issues on which we agree. For far too long, we in Labour have been pressing the Taoiseach and the Government and,...