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Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of the Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2024: Referral to Joint Committee (5 Nov 2024)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue and wish Dr. Hillery all the best with her retirement. I take the point he made about the gap in service provision and the anxiety that is causing for people who need ophthalmology services. I will raise it directly with the Minister and the chief executive of the HSE and ask them to come back to the Deputy urgently.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: For well over two years I have been putting this question to a number of Ministers and nothing fundamental has changed. This is the last opportunity I will have to raise this issue. There is a critical lack of public health nurses in Dublin 12 and Dublin 8. There are in many cases no development checks happening for children. These are vital checks, as the Taoiseach knows. I have mother...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which I acknowledge she has raised on a number of occasions. I can only tell her what my understanding is. My understanding is this was not a funding issue and that there was a challenge in identifying people, but I take the point the Deputy has a piece of paper from the HSE that does not fully align with that. I personally undertake to raise the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Does the Taoiseach agree every major town should have a swimming pool? It is a basic facility. Bandon is biggest town in my constituency of Cork South-West. It has a population in excess of 8,000 but it does not have this basic facility that every family and every child should be able to access. There is a swimming pool in Dunmanway. It is a public pool but it is oversubscribed. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. His idea is a sensible one. I will certainly ask the Minister for sport and suggest she and the Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne, ask Swim Ireland to assist with that. I know from my constituency that can be helpful in mapping this out. We have seen an improvement in the availability of swimming pools and public pools. We need to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

David Stanton: The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment administers some very good grants, of which the power up grant is one. I support Deputy Canney who spoke about anomalies in the system. There is one in particular where if the business is a tenant and pays the rates to the landlord to pass on to the local authority, nobody can qualify for the grant. In addition, if people had already...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the anomalies or the need to maybe tweak the power up grant and grants and funding around solar panels. This is something I will speak directly to the Minister about, but he is aware of it. In years gone by, we allocated a lot of funding to support small businesses. Sometimes it has even been hard to get all that funding drawn down because of the rigidity of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Like all candidates, we are knocking on doors across County Donegal and the Taoiseach should trust me when I say there are huge numbers of families who cannot avail of the defective blocks scheme. They just cannot afford it. They are tens of thousands of euro and, in some cases, over €100,000 short. That is the reality of the scheme. I appeal to the Taoiseach in this election...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy very much for raising the issue and I accept the sincerity with which he does so. We have obviously seen a number of very considerable enhancements for eligible homeowners, including 100% grants subject to that overall maximum grant of €462,000 per dwelling, which we increased only last month from the original figure of €420,000 and also keeping the grant...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: The council is conducting farm-by-farm inspections in the Castletown-Kinneigh and Coppeen area. Farmers who are well familiar with Department of agriculture, Bord Bia and a myriad of different inspections are finding these county council inspections are far more intense and are being conducted on every farm, even though the expectation was only 5% would be inspected. Even a one-cow farm is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: There is a water action plan, which I launched a number of months ago, and it is anticipated there will be more inspections as well as funding to increase the number of inspectors at local authority level. This is about retention of the nitrates derogation. It is critically important to this country and we all can agree on that here. It is also about improving our water quality and we have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister of State. We are out of time but I am going to take 30-second questions from each of the five remaining Deputies, beginning with Deputy Griffin.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Ceann Comhairle. Last week, there was an historic day for the people of County Kerry with the signing by President Higgins of the posthumous pardon in respect of Sylvester Poff and James Barrett, who were hanged for a murder they did not commit back in 1883. Their bodies were buried in Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee, which is still in the ownership of our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Taoiseach to provide funding for the Killarney bypass. People are stalled, parked on the roads in and out of Killarney morning, noon and night. I also ask him to provide funding for the bridges on the Ring of Kerry road and Listry bridge. The road from Blackwater Bridge to Sneem has been totally and absolutely neglected. It is part of the Ring of Kerry route. It has to be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Kerrane for raising this important issue and for the constructive way in which she has done that. I know of the strength of feeling in the community of Ballaghaderreen which she is bringing to the floor of the Dáil here. I want to assure the Deputy that we take the safety of people living and working in rural Ireland very seriously. Preventing crime does not just mean...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the serious issue with the Taoiseach concerning the rights of a murder victim's family. Two young women, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, were murdered in 1976 by John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans acting together. Evans later died in prison. Shaw is serving a life sentence and is before the Parole Board for review. Shaw was never convicted of Elizabeth's murder. He was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik for raising this important and sensitive issue. I can only imagine the pain that the Plunkett must feel as they still look for answers and information all these years on. I take seriously the point she makes about that anomaly and the importance of the rights of victims' families and I will raise that directly with the Minister for Justice. I want to be careful to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: On behalf of the Social Democrats I want to acknowledge the passing of David Davin-Power. Our thoughts are with his colleagues, his family and his friends at this time. The Cabinet finally agreed to increase the housing targets. The housing Minister was supposed to do this back in 2023. Two years late and 48 hours out from the election, he finally gets around to doing it. People can...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns very much for raising the question. The Government set the parameters for the housing targets for the next number of years out to 2030 today. That was a sensible thing to do because it does anchor the debate and discussion we will have no doubt in this country in the coming weeks. We also did that alongside the national planning framework because without a draft...