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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: No, the Government made a decision on Part 9 of the Land Development Agency Act. That is entirely correct. Respectfully, there would not be a Land Development Agency if it was up to the Deputy because she does not believe in it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Correct.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: That is okay too. I am not saying that there cannot be future housing development on that site and as part of a planning permission for that site that cannot involve social and affordable housing. They are genuinely different points. Deputy Murphy raised the apartment and duplex defects scheme. I need to get him a note on that because I do not have the information to hand. My...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Child Poverty

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Alan Farrell: 16. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the outcomes of the child poverty and well-being summit. [26079/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the outcomes of the child poverty and well-being summit. [28141/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the outcomes of the child poverty and well-being summit. [28184/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 to 18, inclusive, together. I was delighted to host the child poverty and well-being summit on Thursday, 23 May in Dublin Castle. I welcomed the former UK Prime Minister and Chancellor, Gordon Brown, who shared what he had learned from his experience of reducing child poverty rates in the UK in his keynote address. My colleague the Minister for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Taoiseach. Members have a maximum of a minute and a half.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I have discussed this matter with the Taoiseach and other members of the Government in the recent past. I am always pleased to hear he is cognisant that listening to children is extremely important but figuring out how to turn that into policy is just as important and, therefore, it is encouraging to hear that, and what the Government does in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in Ireland. Some 10,000 people per annum are diagnosed with skin cancer. Despite this, the use of sunbeds is still widespread. Using a sunbed increases the risk of developing skin cancer by 60%. That is only after just one session on a sunbed. More worryingly, 40% of people continue to use sunbeds despite knowing the risks involved for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Councillor Pearse McGeough and I met representatives of Connect Credit Union in Blackrock this morning regarding the planned closure of the Kilsaran and Clogherhead branches on 30 August. This is not something we want to see. I spoke to the representatives and our biggest concern was about the vulnerable clients and that thing that makes the credit union different. We need to make sure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: The US medical devices company Stryker employs 1,500 people in Carrigtwohill, County Cork. A significant minority of this workforce has chosen to join the trade union SIPTU. The company refused to recognise the union, in contrast to the position at its other plants in Macroom and Limerick, where it purchased companies with pre-existing union recognition arrangements. Stryker states that it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious that the Taoiseach is running away from a debate on the report by the Housing Commission, which we have been asking about for weeks. One of the major contributors to the report was the NESC. It gave a presentation to the commission in March 2023, which referred to the need to engineer permanent affordability into housing policy. NESC referred to the housing policy as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It has now been two years since the Government received the report into the scale of defects in apartments and duplexes, revealing that a majority of the properties built between 1991 and 2013 were likely affected. There may be up to 100,000 apartments and duplexes whose owners face an average cost, which is probably increased since, of €25,000 to repair. It has been a year and a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: Clean drinking water and wastewater treatment systems are basic components needed to grow or even to just sustain rural communities. At the moment, our island communities in west Cork face huge barriers in accessing affordable social housing due to the need for a stand-alone wastewater treatment units. In Castletownbere, there is an issue where there is no extra capacity for drinking water...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The EU directive on adequate minimum wages is a significant opportunity to improve workers' rights and increase productivity in the Irish economy. The success of the directive relies on the domestic legislation underpinning it and the plan on collective bargaining that will be presented to European Commission as part of its transposition. The need for collective bargaining to be protected...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I do not know whether the issue of support for Mrs. von der Leyen to have another term of office leading the European Commission came up at the Taoiseach's Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination. The Taoiseach might advise us whether it did. I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Government that professes to be serious about Palestinian rights would weigh in behind von der Leyen...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I wish to raise the issue of the co-ordination of Ukrainian refugees in County Clare. For the last 18 months, 21 refugees have been located in Loop Head. Loop Head, by the admission of Clare County Council, is a community in terminal population decline. It has seen 21 individuals being integrated into that very peripheral community, six of whom are children in school and four are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am going to bring up my yearly issue of the brown water in Dundalk. It is not the first time I have brought it up with the Taoiseach. It is a particular issue of increased manganese in the water supply reacting with chlorine, which leads to the water being incredibly brown. It also means this impacts on any repairs that get fixed or any flushing teams operating in other areas. Following...