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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: This is Leaders' Questions and you are being asked a question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: The second point is the Deputy says she has not met these people. She must not be listening to the radio because there have schoolchildren on the radio talking about the benefit in their schools. I referenced a school principal there from De La Salle College, Churchtown. On Tuesday, 5 November an article by Ken Foxe referenced six different schools contacted about their experience of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: It is not mandatory; it is not obligatory. It is Government listening to teachers and principals and providing them with another option. It is €20 per kid to help support their mental health if the school wants it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: That is all Sinn Féin has to offer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: And it is €2 million per annum. Is that right, Taoiseach?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Members. We are moving on-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: What about Labour's spending on the bike shed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please Deputies. We move to Deputy Holly Cairns, leader of the Social Democrats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Time is pretty much up for this Government. When Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s alliance started they were the Civil War parties, but now it seems they are more like the phoney war parties. For weeks there has been sniping in the media. It is not about policy, because it does not seem like there are many policy differences between them, but about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I would never age a colleague, but I do not think there is that big a difference in our ages so I am not sure how I have been a Government Minister almost all the Deputy's adult life. Leaving that aside, she likes to portray this Government's record in a certain way. That is fine, it is her job and I look forward to debating that on the campaign trail. This is the Government that steered...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: The thing that is difficult for me to believe or that I do not really buy or that, to be honest, is not really credible is that somebody who was the Minister for Health with responsibility for disability when nothing improved and things got worse then comes in as Taoiseach and sets up a Cabinet subcommittee when we have already had loads of committees and reports and know all the things we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach can have all the new energy in the world but without any new ideas, nothing is going to change. I think we are all hearing it on the doors that some people feel despondent and feel like there is no other choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: This election is about choices and we can choose differently. We can choose to vote for parties that will invest in public services and not splash the cash around in a giveaway budget to try to buy an election. There are parties that will invest in services like these and I hope people will use their choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his forbearance and patience, as ever. The Government is a serial waster of the public’s money. Its waste leaves people shaking their heads in disbelief. The lack of accountability angers people. There has been no accountability for the €336,000 bicycle shelter, nor for the €1.4 million security hut or the doubling of costs for modular...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this issue. I will make a number of points. First, when the Deputy talks about the state of our economy in terms of the use of taxpayers' money, she leaves out a number of facts. She leaves out the fact that this is a country running a budget surplus and that we have managed to put aside billions of euro to protect people from future economic shocks....