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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: I welcome the retired nurses from Kerry and thank them for their service in the health service. I will certainly have a word with them in a moment about some of the issues the Deputy has raised. I am not across the detail of that and it does not tally with my information but I will have a word with them in a moment. When it comes to the health service, I accept of course that it has to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I wish to begin by expressing my appreciation, and, I am sure, that of everybody in this House, of everybody who has worked or is working or volunteering with Templemore Community Services Centre and indeed day centres right across Ireland. We are lucky to have around 300 day centres and around 300 meals on wheels locations right across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Lowry: I thank the Taoiseach for his consideration of this proposal. Tomorrow morning, the HSE will meet representatives of the local action committee. It is important that when they put forward a proposal to the Department of Health, it is received favourably and some funding is provided immediately. I am very familiar with the local group who work behind the scenes. They are very dedicated,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: I know time is getting short around here but that was very quick and efficient. I stood up only a minute ago but the Deputy has said the HSE and committee are having the meeting tomorrow. That worked out well. This is an important issue. I am pleased to hear from the Deputy that the meeting between the HSE and Templemore Community Services Centre will take place tomorrow. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome to Dáil Éireann almost 30 retired nurses who devoted their lives to working in hospitals and caring for the sick, and I commend them on the service they gave. I remind the Taoiseach that these are the very people who came back to help during the Covid period, in 2021 and 2022. The Government is now taking and demanding money out of their pensions. The Government is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: That is okay.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: It happens to us all, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: It is a free pass Deputy Danny Healy-Rae gets all the time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: Deputy Bacik has made a number of important points. As regards the targets, being honest, there is probably not much surprise about the fact that the targets are rising. The Deputy has suggested figures, as have all Opposition and Government parties, as to where housing needs to get to. We have heard figures getting to-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Government's commission clarified this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please. We will let the Taoiseach answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: There is no guesswork involved.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: We will have our detailed debate soon, but 50,000 to 60,000 homes are figures I have heard in this House and from people right across the building sector. Being honest, however, nearly the more important part, or at least as important a part, was getting the national planning framework for this. The old version of the national planning framework does not an ability to deliver that number of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Lowry: Throughout the lifetime of the Government, I have emphasised the need to maintain and expand the services that exist for older people within our communities. The Templemore community care project is a group that oversees the provision of a range of vital services, including day care for older people, a community preschool, community social work, family support services, Traveller support...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: No. I genuinely believe this Government can approach the end of its tenure pointing to the fact that there are very many more homes of a whole variety of different tenures in Ireland now that were not there before this Government came to office. By any objective measure, not only have we hit targets, but we have actually exceeded targets as well. While I appreciate the constructive way...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is not how it happened.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: The target was a fair reflection of what could be delivered when we were having to rebuild a construction sector almost from scratch. As a result, we have now absolutely exceeded the targets. Deputy Bacik has been a voice in this House calling for revised targets to be published, which the Government has now done today. That anchors the discussion for the weeks ahead. This Government...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Ivana Bacik: While I welcome the very late publication of revised targets, I regret the fact they are being published so late. It is just not good policy-making to set targets that are too low for too long and then at the eleventh hour, one month before many offices will close for Christmas, to bring in new targets, especially when they are not being funded adequately. I have serious concerns about the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: What about the second bicycle shelter?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I have already responded on that and I am not going to take that again. I am not taking it anymore.