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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (3 Oct 2024)

Colm Burke: I apologise that the Minister for Education is not able to be here. She asked me to deputise for her and express her apologies on her behalf. Before I address the specific issue raised, I will provide an outline of the extent of the school transport scheme. The scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023-24 school...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: The first page of the budget 2025 expenditure report states: "Sustainable public expenditure requires both the delivery of better public services, infrastructure and living standards for the people of Ireland, and expenditure to be set at levels that can be maintained over the longer term." That is a far cry from what this budget actually contains, a bonanza of one-off measures with very...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I noted the Cathaoirleach's remarks about Mary O'Rourke. I did not get to meet her but I wish to extend my sympathies to her family and friends. I finally get to respond to this year's budget announcement. I have a whole two minutes to encapsulate what my constituents in Clare have said to me, namely, that this Government has failed by its own measure of success in how it treats the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas. Ar ndóigh, níor airigh mé na blianta ag imeacht. Is í seo an uair dheireanach a bheidh deis agam cúpla focal a rá maidir leis an gcáinaisnéis. Beidh 32 bliain caite agam sa Teach seo sa chéad mhí eile. Tá mé ag ceapadh gurb é seo an 32ú cáinaisnéis a chonaic mé. Ar ndóigh,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We were all poor, including those of us on this side of the House too.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: What was the name of the former Minister of Finance from Limerick?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Michael Noonan.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: He stood there and said that the Government of the time was picking the low-hanging fruit first after the banking collapse in 2008 when he came into government. He said it was picking the low-hanging fruit for austerity. Those low-hanging fruits were the drug and addiction services in communities, the family support and youth services and the intervention services that were needed in the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There would not be much left in the kitty in that case.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Government has proven that for the past 11 years.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. We were all poor.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It has come to my attention that RTÉ is reporting that an esteemed, long-serving, highly regarded and colourful former colleague, Mary O'Rourke, has passed away. I am sure we all want to express our sympathies to her family.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I would like to be associated with the Ceann Comhairle's expression of sympathy on the death of former Minister, Ms Mary O'Rourke. I have been listening to the debate for the past while with interest. Not too many of us, on both sides of the House, disagree about what we would like to get done. A lot of it is about how we get there. Many of us would like to get to the destination a lot...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: Millions were.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It was 6 million in the case of the Jewish people alone and millions of others, to the extent that about 20 million altogether were exterminated in one way or another. Their lives were terminated. Their futures were terminated. Their families were terminated. Their raison dêtre - the reason for their existence - was terminated. They had no future. We need to remember all of that...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: When the Government praises this budget and says it has done a great job, that is quite a subjective point of view I want to be objective on behalf of a different cohort of people-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: That is the way it works.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----than the Fine Gael TDs sitting opposite me. That is the community and voluntary sector, the sector that looks after the people who live in poverty. "Poverty" is a word that is very seldom heard in this House. It is a word the Government has forgotten. The Government speaks about inclusion. Yes, inclusion is great. It is a nice word and all the rest of it. However, I am talking...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I get depressed very often when I come into the Chamber and hear the Opposition Members voice their opinions, which they are entitled to voice-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Gary Gannon: Thanks.