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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 to 19, inclusive, together. I attended the summit on peace in Ukraine hosted by Switzerland on 15 and 16 June, together with over 50 other world leaders and over 100 countries and international organisations. As world leaders gathered for this important summit to talk about peace, Russia continued its relentless attacks on Ukraine, including the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is absolutely right to condemn the barbaric character of Russia's actions in Ukraine. The almost certain missile attack against a children's hospital is an absolute outrage. The kidnapping of children and the illegal and unjustifiable invasion are barbaric. There is no question about it. Really, Putin is sort of reminiscent of Stalin in his barbarism. There is no doubt,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I express my horror and outrage at the attack on civilian infrastructure and specifically the attack on the children's hospital in Kyiv by the Russian military. It is absolutely horrendous to see the pictures from that hospital. It certainly seems to be a clear war crime by the Putin regime. In relation to the summit, this was heralded as a peace summit. Obviously, though, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Taoiseach said about a cross-Border enterprise hub to deal with certain issues. I probably failed to say that there would need to be engagement with the British Government and some sort of bilateral agreement. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves might be more open than the people who sat there previously. The issue of the underfunding of the Executive needs to be dealt with....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly, one of the things we share on this island, North and South, is a very severe housing crisis affecting tens of thousands of people who are on council housing waiting lists. Down here it is 57,000 officially but actually nearer to 100,000 when one takes into account the HAP and RAS transfer lists. In the North 47,000 people are waiting for social housing, 35,000 of whom are considered...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: What action has the Taoiseach taken to implement the all-island rail review? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, transport emissions increased again last year. To reach the legally binding target for transport, they must fall 12% this year and by 12% next year. It is very likely that this simply will not happen and then the cut from 2026 to 2030 will have to be even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Brendan Smith: I very much welcome the strong message that the shared island initiative will continue to identify more investment opportunities on a cross-Border and all-Ireland basis, and quite rightly. The Ulster Canal project would not have proceeded without funding from the shared island initiative. We have so much potential in the whole area of waterways development, allied to the Shannon-Erne...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the plans for Narrow Water Bridge but we need to make sure it is built on time and within budget. I welcome a lot of the research from the shared island initiative but we need to look at research and modelling on a higher level. I do not believe I would shock anyone by saying that I believe the State has a responsibility to prepare for the possibility of constitutional change...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: That is okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is for accuracy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Definitely. Either which way, they will not be found wanting, unlike myself who sometimes is found wanting. Remote working or working from home is not a possibility for people who are working cross-Border and there are other issues in relation to pensions, tax codes and such.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: Time, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have a document that the Taoiseach had requested and I believe action that needs to be taken.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank colleagues for raising a number of issues. Without commenting on individual decisions of the courts, it is absolutely the case that the epidemic of violence by men against women and attacking women does not stop at any border. I say in the spirit of co-operation that there is more we can do on the island together. I know we will have willing interlocutors in the Northern Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The quality is so poor, people would rather sleep at the canal. That is the truth.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: To Deputy Ó Murchú, I thank him for his points specifically in relation to the affordable housing scheme in Dundalk, the criteria around it and the anxiety felt by people in relation to the housing crisis. I undertook to come back to him on that, which I will.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative of his Department. [27947/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 9. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative. [27952/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 10. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative of his Department. [27975/24]