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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Ceann Comhairle, the Taoiseach and party leaders for their very kind good wishes for Deputy Catherine Murphy and me. We very much appreciate them. I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach last month, that is, changes in Revenue's rules about the taxation of GP income, which very much affect GP charities. I am thinking, in particular, of a charity run by Dr....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Shortall. I acknowledge this is the second time she has raised this. She raised it with me last month and I spoke to the then Minister for Finance about it. My understanding is that the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, has done likewise and that the Department of Finance is examining the issue. However, I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: The waste-management companies have said plastic bottles and cans are the most valuable items in the household green bins and that, because they do not get them any more, they want to put up the price of the collection of these bins. The Taoiseach did not answer Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's question. Will he countenance the increase in the price of green bin collection because of the policy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I answered that question the last time. That is not currently the Government's plan. On the specific issues, we do need to have an evidence base here rather than just accept what a waste company, with the greatest respect to it, or any other organisation says. The charges applied by waste management companies are managed by those companies but they are subject to compliance with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Vincent Kearney, RTÉ's current northern correspondent, believes the PSNI attempted to identify sources he worked with while with the BBC. His case came to light when two other journalists made similar allegations, namely that the PSNI had recorded their phone calls. On two occasions when I was talking to the journalists in the north of Ireland, the phone calls dropped, and immediately...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I am conscious of commenting on the issue. I thank Deputy Tóibín for raising it but I have no knowledge of it. Obviously, these are very serious matters. If the Deputy wishes, I am happy to correspond with him on the matter and raise it with the relevant authorities.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The people of Cashel lost their medical services in Our Lady's to Clonmel back in the 1980s. They have been waiting and waiting for a new 60-bed community unit in Cashel. We expected it to be started at this stage, but, hey presto, the authorities decided the site was not big enough at St. Patrick's Hospital. We all believed it was. Now the authorities are supposed to be searching for a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. As he will recall, in 2016 the then Government put in place a system to rebuild 90 CNUs the length and breadth of the country. Forty-eight of these have been completed. The one in Clonmel, which the Deputy visited with me recently, will be completed by the end of the year. On the one in Cashel, the estates section is currently considering a site. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: In May, there was a report on the two-tier system for cancer treatment, the issue being the two-year difference in the approval times for reimbursement of new cancer drugs of the public and private systems. As I said at the time, there should be no differences in people's ability to gain access to life-saving treatment based on how much money they have. I am sure the Minister of State...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: Truthfully, as recently as yesterday at my diary meeting we agreed to have a meeting with Professor Higgins. I have been seeking to have that meeting for some time and it should now be scheduled. I certainly spoke to my team about it yesterday, and I will be very happy to revert to the Deputy on it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach will be aware of the difficulties families encounter in accessing mental health services, particularly for children and young people. An organisation in Limerick called Dóchas Midwest Autism Support caters for 200 young people and children each week and it has direct access to 300 families. It recently applied for a children's disability services grant and was refused for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy very much for his question. At the start, he mentioned that this matter falls under mental health services, but it actually falls under the remit of my colleague Deputy Anne Rabbitte, the Minister of State responsible for disabilities. Obviously, there are some children with dual diagnoses who need the support of CAMHS and who might have a secondary diagnosis of autism....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It seems waste collection companies are threatening to hike prices for collecting recycling bins. Their claim is that this is to make up for the loss of plastic bottles and drink cans to the deposit return scheme that is now in place. If this price hike goes ahead, it will be a blow to households, many of which are struggling with the cost of living. People have engaged with the deposit...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: The Government is not planning to do that. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is currently engaging with the Irish Waste Management Association and other stakeholders such as Repak to conduct a robust evidence-based process to quantify what substantive impact, if any, the introduction of the deposit return scheme will have on the waste collection system in Ireland...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome Finola Cassidy to the Public Gallery. She is here on behalf of the Irish Thalidomide Association. Once again, I ask the Taoiseach what he proposes to do to ensure thalidomide survivors in Ireland will have justice. It is now more than 63 years since the drug thalidomide was removed from the market. Also, it is more than 63 days – in fact, it is 70 – since the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for this week's business be agreed to". The Dáil divided: Tá, 71; Níl, 57; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Richard Boyd Barrett.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Barry Cowen, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Question declared carried.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it happen?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: We can see that best at the Business Committee. We have to get a lot of legislation-----