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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: With the cacophony of noise it is hard to concentrate. Including in respect of the Deputy's own local hospital, the Mater Hospital, I went through the material difference that has made in terms of hundreds of additional nurses working on the ground, thousands of extra doctors, thousands of extra healthcare professionals. The Deputy can say all that and she can acknowledge that to be true,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Agency.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: In relation to agency, I guarantee you if the Minister for Health said tomorrow that we are not doing any more agency, despite all this recruitment, your Deputies would be writing to me saying "what about this?" and "what about that?".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: There is always a need for flexibility and agility when it is hard to fill posts. We are recruiting record levels, more than ever. We have set a target of a two-thirds reduction in agency staff in 2025. The Deputy made a very important point that I ant to deal with directly about radiation therapists and cancer treatment. This is a real issue and I thank her for raising it. There are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Education is the great liberator, but that is if you can get an education. In Ireland in 2024, as we have learned today, 44 pupils across the country are being taught at home because there is no school place available for them. A further 150 young people are receiving home tuition because of anxiety or mental health issues but also in many cases because there are just not enough staff in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: She is not looking for a second bike shed any more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Oh shut up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: She gave up on the second bike shed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: She is not very good at building anything.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have had enough of the Waldorf and Statler, please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Apologies, a Cheann Comhairle, but I have really had enough of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We will tell you the truth oftentimes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputies, please. I call the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. I thank Deputy Bacik who is clearly raising an important issue here----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: A serious issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: ---- which deserves to be treated with the seriousness with which the question is asked. Of course education is a vitally important issue. The Deputy is right to highlight that there are some challenges and pinch points in respect of recruitment that I want to deal with directly. We need to remind ourselves again that the vast majority of allocated teaching posts are of course filled....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his constructive response. A Cheann Comhairle, I apologise for my language earlier but I am sick of taking insults and abuse on cycling from Deputies who believe that God above is in charge of the weather and who have no record of taking the climate crisis seriously. I have no time for that nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You would want to be sure you are not going to the pumps for diesel. You will not build a million houses either. We have enough of that now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I have no time for that nonsense when we are----