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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I definitely do not want give him a lame duck excuse on this so he should let me engage directly with the Minister. I acknowledge this is an issue the Deputy has brought up time and time again. Let me in the first instance engage with the Minister on this matter to see if there is a way of advancing it once and for all. I will revert to the Deputy on that. Obviously,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I raise with the Taoiseach what is happening with housing developments around the country. The one I raise today is Bailey Hill in Navan, County Meath by Kingscroft Developments. There has been serious delay after delay when it comes to finishing the houses and giving people the keys to their new homes. Many young people and couples are in this predicament. A couple signed sale agreed in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. It is not in order or appropriate to name individuals and make allegations against them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Obviously I will respect your ruling, a Cheann Comhairle. On a more general level, I can imagine the anticipation and excitement, of a young couple or anybody getting the keys of their new homes and the disruption that can cause to their life, to put it mildly, if there is a delay with that. Let me inquire through the appropriate channels of the Department of housing if there is any...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have four remaining Deputies and the time is up. I ask for 30-second questions from each of them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the appalling catastrophe unfolding in Sudan. As the House may know, civil war has raged there for approximately two years, leaving 150,000 dead. Some 2 million refugees have left Sudan already, with millions displaced within the country, and the UN has declared famine in Darfur. It is the only place in the world where the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Patrick Costello: I raise the issue of school provision in Dublin South-Central. While the small increase in variety with Synge Street becoming a Gaelcholáiste has been welcome, there is still no Gaelcholáiste for Dublin 10 or Dublin 12 and no non-denominational, non-religious school for Dublin 8. These issues need to be fixed and the Department of Education has quite frankly been opaque and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach visited Clonmel recently; I was glad to see that. I hope he walked O’Connell Street. A businessman contacted me this week due to ongoing incidents of violence, open drug dealing and intimidation on the streets. He is threatening to remove his store from O’Connell Street. He has been there for a number of years and has a successful business. The lack of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I was delighted to be in Clonmel recently with Councillor Michael Murphy for the turning of the sod of the new Garda station.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You did not turn the sod.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I was in the library.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It has not even gone out to tender.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Excuse me, we were there for the enabling works.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Cool the spin, Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I know Councillor Murphy is working very hard on the ground and might have the Deputy rattled. Let me just finish the point. We were there for the enabling works for the Garda station. We will deliver a new library next. I was in the library. I was also in the beautiful museum Clonmel has and I mean that genuinely. I think I met the superintendent that day. I certainly met many senior...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I welcome the Taoiseach and all colleagues back. I want to raise the with the Taoiseach what is known as the Sligo cancer bus, which brings patients from Sligo-Leitrim and parts of County Donegal to the centre of excellence in Galway for treatment. There are two issues. First, the bus has no toilet facilities and is not wheelchair accessible. It is unacceptable for sick patients to have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy has raised a very reasonable and very fair point about the importance of toilet facilities and wheelchair accessibility on a bus, particularly a bus bringing sick people to their cancer treatment. I engaged on this matter with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, this morning to discuss funding streams that may be available in that area. I hear from the Deputy’s comments now...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I recently met with representatives of Dignity for Patients. They represent an increasing number of people who are coming forward who were abused by the convicted criminal paedophile Michael Shine. I support their demand for commission of investigation into all aspects of the abuse they suffered and other issues we have privately advised the Taoiseach of. I support what the Taoiseach has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this. I also thank him for his ongoing work over a sustained period of time on this important issue. In the first instance, my Department is liaising with the Departments of Health and Justice to prepare a number of options. The Minister for Health has confirmed today that he is also engaging with the Attorney General on the publication of the report in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yesterday, Dublin City Council brought forward Part 8 proposals for almost 500 homes in Balcurris and Balbutcher. These are in addition to the other Part 8 proposals passed earlier in the year in Wellmount and Cardiffsbridge - all public homes on public land, all built under Housing for All and we did not even have to turn one page of Deputy Ó Broin’s little green book. ...