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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Wastewater Treatment
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise with the Minister of State this evening the question of funding for two estates that lie together on the top Aghadoe - Birch Hill and Old Killarney Village. There is a problem with the sewerage systems, for which planning permission was granted. Kerry County Council has cited problems with this going back almost ten years. In 2020, funding was...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: I am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who would like to thank the Deputy for raising this important issue and providing an opportunity to address the matter. As he knows, a small number of estates rely on developer-provided water services infrastructure, commonly referred to as DPI, for their water services. They mainly consist of wastewater...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (9 Jul 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Heritage Sites
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to bring this matter up. I also thanks the Ceann Comhairle once again. I know it may sound boring at this stage. It is ten months since the origin of the problem. Since then, all representatives of County Kildare have had to bring the matter before the House. We are becoming impatient and understandably so. The situation continues, with...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Durkan for raising this. I have been in this role for a relatively short period. I will not go over the script I have been provided. I will give my thoughts, which are that I have been in this role for a short period and have come to this as an honest broker. I have had three meetings of the working group. I want people to work collaboratively. I have come in with no...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I realise, appreciate and acknowledge that the Minister of State is an honest broker. I would not like to think that I might be observed as a dishonest broker. I am an elected public representative for the area. I convey the views to the House that people have conveyed to me. That is the position that any public representative has. I specifically ask if the Minister of State will meet...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It is growing, and we are able to recruit and keep people.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true the public service has grown. After the disastrous austerity cuts, the Government had to go into reverse-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Austerity.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because of the damage it did after the economic crash. However, in key areas I have mentioned - CAMHS, CDNTs, teachers, nurses, allied health professionals - we have a serious problem. This is causing immense hardship for the service users. There are long waiting lists and double whammies for people with special needs and disability. The kids and parents get hit in education, and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I never said it was hunky-dory. The Deputy should not put words in my mouth.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, well-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I never said that. I acknowledged, stood up and said the Deputy was raising real issues but he should not put words in my mouth or suggest for a moment that I am not taking seriously the issues he is raising. What I am simply saying is that creating the image that our public services overall cannot get and keep people is wrong. It is wrong to say that. The wages we are now offering in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single one of what?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: The wage agreements we have brought in. The Deputy has always said they are not enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: He has always said they are not enough. We are now paying our public servants, across many parts of our public services, wages that are easily comparable with what is available in other parts of Europe, and in many cases ahead. I want to make that case regarding the scale of and funding for our public services.