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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. No one likes the idea, by any manner or means, of any person, but particularly an older person living in isolation, being in any way fearful in their own home. The home should be a safe haven for people. I will certainly pass on the Deputy's specific comments about Roscommon and Galway and the importance of a Garda presence in rural areas to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Jackie Cahill: It is the first week of July and an impending fodder crisis is facing the livestock sector. We had an extremely long, wet winter which exhausted all existing fodder supplies. Grass growth for the spring and early summer has been roughly 30% below average. We are heading into a crisis and the mental and financial pressure farmers are under cannot be overestimated. I stress, above all, the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I know the Deputy's particular area of expertise in this area, both as a constituency TD and before his political life in this House. I take seriously what he says. This is a Government that will always support farmers. I am very conscious of how horrific the weather has been for them this year and the huge stress that has created. I have visited a number of farms with the Irish Farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: Last week, the Department of Finance published a report that showed forward funding arrangements by the approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency are now central to the construction of multi-unit developments in Dublin. There are strong funding streams for social housing and cost-rental housing but no funding streams for affordable purchase. This is borne out by the statistics...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for allowing me to give consideration to this issue. I saw the report from the Department of Finance. I have also had a series of meetings with the banks this week at which I discussed the issue of development financing and how, when anyone reads the Housing Commission report, which is often misrepresented by people in this House for their own political ideology, it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On Friday, the Department of Education informed us that St. Kevin's school in Finglas West was approved for a new ASD class. This brings to 20 the total number of ASD classes opened in my area in the past four years. There is a real challenge here in that for the last nine months, parents will have applied to all 20 of those schools to try to secure a place. They will have spent nine...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. Since I came into this role, we have seen that the number of special educational needs organisers, SENOs, will increase from 73 to 120. The Deputy is correct about the issues with enrolment, with parents applying to numerous schools. Schools have their own enrolment policies and the NCSE is sometimes blind to the figures a school has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Patricia Ryan: This Government promised to look after our older people. Why then is it being reported that elderly patients are continuing to be removed or discharged from University Hospital Limerick, UHL, outside normal discharge hours? Are their families being informed? I am told staff are being prevented from speaking out. I want to know why. Is this policy and, if so, why is it continuing? It is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, which is concerning to me. I have a number of concerns related to University Hospital Limerick and so too does the Government. That is why we have asked the former Chief Justice Frank Clarke to look at a number of issues. Let me specifically talk with the Minister for Health - I an conscious the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is sitting behind...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, raise a health issue. According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, more than 50 nursing positions are vacant in University Hospital Kerry. The union is calling on the HSE to immediately end its recruitment moratorium for front-line healthcare workers. In that vein, Deputy Michael Collins, my brother Danny and I have been operating a bus carrying people to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I doubt that many people in this country favour strike action and I think most people, as the Deputy said, want to see an end to the disruption. I am very conscious the least helpful thing anyone in this House, most of all me, could do is wade right into this while Labour Court hearings are under way today. A huge amount of work has gone in to get to this point. I thank both parties for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Noel Grealish: With Galway's great win over Dublin last Saturday, I received a huge number of phone calls, some before and many more after the match, from people who were very aggravated that they could not watch the two championship matches on Saturday afternoon, Roscommon versus Armagh and Galway versus Dublin. Many of the people who contacted me are the people who built the GAA, former players and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: There is no need to be provoking or rubbing salt in the wounds of Dublin Deputies, but I congratulate Galway on their win at the weekend. The Deputy raises a very important issue. The last time I raised it there was a lot of tut-tutting from top brass in the GAA and they were very disappointed with my comments, but I would say this to them, respectfully. Far more people are disappointed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Today, there is a group up from the Clonmel and District Wheelchair Society, led by volunteer driver Philip Meaney, some of whom are wheelchair users. I thank the staff of Leinster House, including the ushers, for being so helpful, as they always are but especially to these wheelchair users. The mobility allowance was cut ten or 11 years ago and has nearly gone off the agenda, and it was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: In fairness to Deputy McGrath, he was good enough to send me a note today to say representatives of the Tipperary spina bifida group are in the Dáil and I would love to get a chance to say hello if I can. I will be here for quite a while yet. I wish them well and thank them for being here, along with the Irish Wheelchair Association. There are two issues. I understand that the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Taoiseach is here. This is my second time to raise this issue in the Dáil. I raised it in the Taoiseach's absence with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and have written to her. It is really serious. Deputy Kelly raised it in the context of Borrisokane. I am raising it in respect of Galway. An eviction notice has been served on those who have been in accommodation for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I was just speaking to the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, on this matter while the Deputy was speaking. I will discuss it further with him and the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman. My understanding, though, is that these are transfers, as opposed to evictions, whereby people are being asked to transfer to other locations, but-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: They have been told to go to emergency accommodation but there is no emergency accommodation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Okay. I will take a look at the specific situation the Deputy has raised and discuss it with the Minister of State and the Minister. What we are doing, and we have to be honest about this, is that the number of people coming from Ukraine has fallen and we are reducing our footprint in terms of leases and contracts-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: This is inhuman.