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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: There has been an increased volume of work by this office in recent years. To give a taste of some of the activities, there was increased activity in the Central Criminal Court since 2019 and there has been a 149% increase in the number of court dates in the Central Criminal Court. The committee will be aware the Central Criminal Court deals with very serious offences, including murder and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Through the courts, yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy. We will move on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and what the Taoiseach is presiding over. No matter how much they try to disentangle from each other, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party are one crowd. They might as well rename themselves and get a new party because that is what they are. The Taoiseach does not want to take on the Greens because they get ministerial posts and the posts of Taoiseach and Tánaiste for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: They liked that Deputy. I was in Kerry and there was nothing speedy about it actually. I was there for most of the day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You did not stay long

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: Sorry now, hang on a second. The Deputy has to give me a bit of a chance. I was there and indeed when was I driving by on the road, I saw this very large portacabin-type thing - I do not know what it was - with Deputy Healy-Rae's face emblazened across it asking people to vote-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a lorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: -----so he is clearly ready for battle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Gerald Nash: It was a lorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: No, it was not a lorry I saw. The Deputy is clearly ready for battle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We know what it is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Gerald Nash: There was probably no planning permission for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: We will check that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It did not cost €326,000. You put more bicycles in here than in the bicycle shed.

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...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Deputy O’Callaghan for his question. He is correct. During the financial downturn, a number of cuts were applied to counsel fee rates, including two separate reductions, which he referred to, 8% in March 2009 and April 2010, which mirrored cuts provided for by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act. An additional reduction of 10% was applied from October...

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...