Results 81-100 of 1,042,541 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Brendan Smith) in 'Committee meetings'
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It is better to have our small businesses.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Ireland has one of the highest rates of low pay in the European Union. That did not happen by accident. It happened as a result of Government policy. We would support businesses' transition from lower wage employment with a PRSI rebate of €250 million targeted at the employers most impacted by increases to the minimum wage. The Minister did not say anything about gold-plated...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I did not sign the contract. Produce the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The cost has overrun by hundreds of millions. Are you trying to deny you had any involvement in that, Simon? Is that what you are trying to say?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: You just said I signed the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is that what you are trying to say, that you had no involvement in that?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ouch.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: All the while, on the Taoiseach's watch, the Bill goes up. When BAM said it would withdraw-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----Deputy Harris said "No way, keep going" and he kept writing the cheques.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Almost a million people-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It was to stop it and not build.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Are you finished, Taoiseach? Almost a million people are on waiting lists. We have all been waiting. We have been waiting for this Government to get its act together but it has not happened and is not going to happen. It is becoming harder and harder for ordinary workers to see a GP. Dental treatment for people with medical cards has collapsed. Mental health services in this State are...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: No, you would not.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We called on the Government to deliver 21,000 social and affordable homes in the budget and 100% redress for those living with defective blocks in Celtic tiger apartments. Not one penny more has been provided for those schemes, despite them being expanded. For regeneration of inner-city flat complexes and those communities that have been waiting for decades, there is nothing from this...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It is all provided for.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It is happening.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin would make sure that they were central. We need to tackle the issue of dereliction in our cities, towns and villages. That is the scale of the ambition needed. The Minister can shake his head all he wants. Every year he has sat at the Cabinet table, the housing crisis has become worse. House prices,rents and levels of homelessness have gone through the roof. Homeownership...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Damien English: Sinn Féin wanted to build fewer houses. Bear that in mind.