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Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Debate resumed on the following motion: -(Deputy Duncan Smith)

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: "notes that: — this Government recently announced a record €25.8 billion budget for the delivery of health services in 2025, and this represents an increase of over 43 per cent from the €18.1 billion allocated in Budget 2020; — there has...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to my colleague Deputy Duncan Smith who has led for us on this important motion. As Deputy Smith has said, this is the last Labour Party Private Member's motion in the lifetime of this Dáil. It might even be last Private Member's motion. In any case we thought it was vitally important we would put it down on the issue of healthcare and especially healthcare staffing. We...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — understaffing in the public health service is impacting the ability of staff to provide safe care and this will put patients at risk and damage efforts to retain existing staff; — the health recruitment moratorium has continued through new recruitment caps, and positions are being left vacant in acute hospitals and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Shana Cohen and Mr. Tiarnán McDonough of TASC Ireland, the think-tank for action of social change. Today's discussion will be on citizens' attitudes to democracy and the rule of law. I thank them both for joining us today in one of our final meetings as a committee. Before their opening statement, I will go through the note on privilege....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Dr. Cohen. I call Senator Keogan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. McDonough. I will move on to Deputy Harkin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I was delayed, so I apologise for that. I also have to leave because I am speaking in the Chamber in a few minutes. I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I have quickly scanned the report but I will not pretend I have read it because I have not. I have listened carefully to what they have said. I have a few thoughts and a few questions. When I came in, I heard it said that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I do not normally expound.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: He was a great colleague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: In Ireland, we have not managed to find a space between participative democracy and representative democracy. We say we have, but we have not because representative democracy to some extent - I will not say what the extent is, I will let other people judge that - but it tends to be determined by someone saying "I delivered this for you". Participative democracy is where local communities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: We have covered so much and it has been a very discursive type of meeting. There are a few areas I would like to speak about but I will not go on at great length because we all could and I am very conscious of time. There are a couple of areas which I think are important. I really have a problem with this notion that the use of the term "far right" is a throwaway thing. It is not. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I invite our witnesses to make a final contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank our witnesses for their contributions and I also thank all members who participated today. As this is our last meeting, I also want to thank all of those who have participated at meetings throughout this committee's term. I also thank the secretariat and support staff for enabling us, as elected representatives, to work very well on this committee during this Dáil. We are not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Deputy Connolly. I will read the script I have been provided and then come back in with some other responses. I wrote to Deputy Connolly last week on foot of a question on policy or legislation to the Taoiseach. The supply of public water and provision of water services in general are matters for Uisce Éireann in the first instance. Uisce Éireann has statutory...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are two siphons under the Corrib and we are saying one of them has been reported as defective.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will ask Uisce Éireann to investigate that. The tankering of sewerage is unacceptable in this day and age. We have a way forward here in terms of the longer-term plan. I mentioned the 2025-29 investment cycle in my response to Deputy Cairns. That will be critically important. We took questions from Deputy Connolly last night on housing development in Galway. This issue will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for his comments. This is of critical importance because the growth of Galway, which I believe should be done in a sustainable way, cannot happen. The population is not growing at the rate expected because of the failure to remediate defective infrastructure. I heard the Minister of State say he will go back to Irish Water. I wish him good luck because Irish Water has...