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Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The political cut and thrust-----

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy is in no position to say that.

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The political cut and thrust can be bruising, and I accept that this comes with the territory, but as we now get ready to go to the people and as we ask people for their votes and their trust, we should remember there is a fundamental responsibility to the children and young people at the centre of these matters and that responsibility, and that responsibility alone, should be the priority...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: In any discussion of child protection, we must think first of survivors and victims of childhood abuse. Their needs and rights must be front and centre. Child protection procedures are in place to protect children. That may sound self-evident but it can sometimes be lost in translation. In my previous life as a practising lawyer, I had the experience of representing survivors of abuse in...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I take the issue of child protection very seriously. There is nothing more important than protecting the safety and well-being of children and responding effectively when they are harmed. Ensuring that children are safe and cared for is a responsibility we all share, no matter who we are or our walk of life. It is something in which I passionately believe as a public representative, as the...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: One rotten apple spoils the barrel, or so the saying goes, but it should not. Every party, like every large organisation, is going to have members with history, problems and secrets. The true measure of a party is not about whether it has these rotten apples, it is how it deals with them. Nowhere is this more critical than when it comes to the safety and protection of our children. What...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are three more speakers on the Government side, one of whom is not here. Somebody might clarify that. The next speaker is Deputy Brophy. He has two minutes.

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry to say this in many ways but the Sinn Féin ethos we now see, which is so clear, is the ethos of "protect the party at all costs", even if that means child protection is put into a distant second place. That is a totally unacceptable ethos for any party. Sinn Féin has sent out its representatives including its party leader in recent days to peddle what amount, I believe,...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Let us be honest - we can no longer describe Sinn Féin as a party to be trusted in managing any aspect of child protection or child welfare. In fact, it is emerging to be must closer to a secret society where protecting the organisation is absolutely paramount above all other considerations including the welfare of children and teenagers. All we need to do is look at its track record...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will begin by stating the absolutely central importance of child protection. While central to work in my Department, it must be something that every one of us is cognisant of and takes with the utmost seriousness. It is simply too important to be used as a political football. Tusla, which falls within the remit of my Department, has a statutory duty under the Child Care Act 1991 to...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Sexual exploitation of children is one of the most grotesque and serious crimes that exist. It is a crime which causes misery in the lives of children and families. We all must do everything in our power to stamp it out. This is a growing problem, with abusers continuing to abuse positions of power and making greater use of technology and online spaces to hide and commit their crimes. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Economic Policy

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [36689/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40038/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40041/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 to 12, inclusive, together. Last month, I chaired the Government’s inaugural competitiveness summit. In attendance were relevant Ministers, together with the chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, a senior representative of the OECD, and the chief executives of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland among others from those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it would be fair to describe the Cherrywood development as a flagship development for Ireland presenting itself as a place where there is quality of life, there is the housing we need and where you have all the amenities, facilities, infrastructure and so on necessary for a place where people can live and work. It is the biggest residential development in the country. I do not like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the question of housing come up at the competitiveness summit? It is clearly a major issue in workers being able to have affordable housing somewhere in some sort of achievable commutable distance from their work. It seems that a key issue continues to be the fact that councils are taking public land and selling it off for very low prices to private developers as opposed to having a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to deal with the issue of pharma in Dundalk. Before that I bring up an issue, I brought up previously about Dundalk Grammar School. It set up a GAA team in the past while, which was supported by parents, students and Louth GAA. It has played in the Lennon Cup but has been given an order by the board to desist. It has caused huge consternation. I have never seen anything cause as...

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