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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

David Cullinane: I have raised with the Taoiseach dozens of times the need to fund the runway extension at Waterford Airport. Every time I raise it, he says he is supportive and that it is in the programme for Government but there is deep frustration in Waterford as we watch on and see funding given to Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Kerry and Donegal airports, while Waterford is left behind. Last June I was told...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important question because the nitrates derogation is of course a critical element in the economic sustainability of many family farms and the broader rural economy in Ireland. I acknowledge the huge efforts being made by farmers in terms of the water quality issue and compliance. Water quality remains the fundamental issue as does the Habitats Directive....

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. As I said, the programme for Government states that the Government will do everything in its power to make the case at EU level to secure the retention of the nitrates derogation, given our unique grass-based production model, and will work with farmers, industry, State agencies and local authorities to develop evidence-based solutions to assist farmers...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate that farming and the food industry have been extremely important to the national economy, but of course it is particularly important to regional economies and to communities across the length and breadth of the country in terms of purchasing power and the impact on other sectors, the supply chain and so forth. It is a significant industry in Ireland, and farmers are taking...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Before we move to questions on policy or legislation, I welcome Tom and Catherine Lyons and their family, Vicky, Alex, Daniel and Lily, to the Dáil. They are all from Ardagh in County Limerick. We will move on to questions on policy or legislation. I remind Deputies that each question and answer is one minute in duration.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: What will students and their families be asked to pay for college in September? Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? The Minister for higher education last night claimed that he believes in giving straight answers to a straight question, and then delivered a ten-minute speech in which he gaslit students and failed to answer that question at all. We have now had ten days of Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: I gave a comprehensive reply to the Deputy yesterday at Leaders' Questions. The simple matter is that we are in the same position this year as last year. There is an Estimates process under way and then there will be a budget. It is at that stage that clarity will be brought to a range of issues pertaining to supports for students-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is in October.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----highlighting in particular that I would like to see additional supports for students with disabilities and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and through SUSI and thresholds to help a broad range of students.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We know St. John Ambulance has paid money in settlements to a survivor who alleges sexual abuse in childhood by a former senior figure in St. John Ambulance. We are aware of further civil cases, and that some have been referred to An Garda. In 2023, the Shannon review confirmed systemic failures in St. John Ambulance from the sixties to the nineties. I note a recent statement from the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: First, it is critical that the recommendations of Dr. Shannon be implemented and that our focus is on that. There have been many calls for inquiries in many areas. The Government yesterday took a very significant decision on the establishment of a commission that will have an enormous body-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Balance and perspective are required in discussing this issue, which is very serious. The Government is very committed to continuing investment in cancer care. It has invested very hugely in cancer care in recent years. It invested up to €645 million between 2021 and 2024 alone. New treatments such as CAR T-cell therapy, radio-labelled therapy and specialised radiotherapy are now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----because all the experts told us that centres of excellence were the way to go. I would appreciate greater clarity from the Deputy in respect of his assertion that 93% of patients attending private hospitals had a better outcome as against those attending public hospitals-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I call Deputy Tóibín.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: ----because the view was - and we have done this at St. James's Hospital, the Mater and Cork University Hospital-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: You are 30 seconds over, Taoiseach. You can come back in.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have put centres of excellence there. That is where people should go.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We do not have centres of excellence in many places; we have centres of waiting lists. Today, the Irish Cancer Society said that we have centres of bare adequacy. Those are the words it used. The Taoiseach mentioned extra resources but these do not keep up with inflation, with population increases or with the ageing population of the country and, in many areas of the HSE, they are not...