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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: My question is about the main policy achievements of the Minister's Department that relate to County Donegal. What impact is it having on the county as a whole?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I am happy to answer Deputy Pringle's question, but I have a question from Deputy Durkan.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Claire Kerrane: We are just allowing Deputy Pringle to go ahead of Deputy Durkan.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I will raise some key points about the progress the national development plan, NDP, is making for the people of County Donegal. I highlight where we are with the national broadband plan. At the moment there are 20 connected remote working hubs in County Donegal. I point to the upgraded N56 in County Donegal, which was reopened following an investment of more than €100 million and I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. Some of the aspects he mentioned will be noted as achievements by different Ministers over time. We will see them being rehashed as time goes on. The Minister mentioned additional projects. It is important that the NDP review is taking place at the moment and there should be different projects in it. The Minister mentioned the N56 in his...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I was not claiming to have delivered the projects myself. I want to make that clear. I just stated that they are examples of projects that the NDP has delivered over a number of years. Work remains to be done on the N56. I heard what the Deputy said about that. I will quickly list other projects that are under way across the county, such as different residential care facilities at...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (9 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: The Minister is right. There is a need for more to be done because County Donegal has been significantly underdeveloped. That is partly down to the Border and Border issues. The county only has 4 km of Border with the Twenty-six Counties and has been very much left to its own devices for many years. That funding gap needs to be addressed and the Government should make it a priority to...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a nice rhetorical flourish-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: You are capable of a few of them yourself.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but it does not answer the question. The Housing For All targets were for 33,000 houses a year. The Government does not want to debate what the Housing Commission has said, although it promised weeks ago that it would debate it. There is reason it does not want to debate it before the end of term. Including the deficit of 250,000 houses and future demand, the Housing Commission...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: We would get to that point in the same way as we do with many other targets. We would do it step by step. Despite Deputy Boyd Barrett's best hopes and ambitions, we do not live in a centrally planned economy. We do not live in an economy in which there is only one thing in respect of which we have to make progress. We have to build more homes. We also have to build more schools. We also...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: How are we going to do that? We are going to do it step by step. How are we not going to do? By means of the type of explosion that Deputy Boyd Barrett appears to be proposing, funded by the very companies and individuals he rails against all the time, he would look to do it all in a single go. Can he accept that there is merit in doing this step by step? He might state that it will take...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The step-by-step approach to addressing the housing crisis has left us with a deficit of 250,000 houses and record numbers of people who are homeless. Those numbers are growing every month. Approximately 100,000 households on housing lists have been waiting for ten, 15 or 20 years. There is a great deal of mystery. It is not us but the Housing Commission which says that a radical reset is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Give me an example of a country that successfully implemented a wealth tax.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are housing crises all over the world.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Give me an example of a country that has successfully implemented a wealth tax.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are all neoliberals like you. That is the problem.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Nice flourish but no answer. I asked Deputy Boyd Barrett to give me-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So because it has never been done we cannot do it. We cannot do something new.