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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....

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

Paschal Donohoe: Hear, hear.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach talks in billions when it suits him but then penny-pinches on the essentials. The Government increased capitation for schools by €10 million. The capitation money is what keeps the show on the road. A sum of €10 million is not enough and well the Taoiseach knows it. There is €10 million for that, to light and heat schools, and then €9 million...

Carer's Allowance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

James Browne: I want to be associated with those remarks.

Carer's Allowance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 11.50 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 12 meán lae. Sitting suspended at 11.50 a.m. and resumed at 12 noon.

Carer's Allowance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We might be joined by Deputy Mairéad Farrell. If we are, I will give way.

Carer's Allowance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Michael Ring: That is fine.

Carer's Allowance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In response to the speeches of the Ministers of State, while I appreciate the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is doing Estimates, it is a pity she was not able to pop in for some of the debate, in particular in relation to the delay in threshold increases. Sinn Féin would have gone a lot further, committing €100 million to significantly increase the thresholds, than the Government...