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- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They will continue to pay big fees, continue to search for spaces that do not exist, and continue to be stressed today and worried about the future. Our plan would deliver the change they need, not just soundbites. It is a plan to make childcare affordable at €10 a day per child by next September, a plan to deliver early years educators and childcare professionals the pay increase...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have heard the Government oscillate between self-congratulatory backslapping and defensive, self-righteous attack rhetoric, neither of which is grounded in any sense of reality. I notice the Taoiseach is not here to participate in this debate. That is a first in my recollection. Perhaps, after all the bragging and hot air, the Taoiseach cannot present himself to stand by and stand over...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Go raibh maith agat, a Thánaiste. Leanfaimid ar aghaidh leis an Aire, an Teachta Roderic O'Gorman.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I begin by recognising the huge work done by the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Chambers, and their teams over the last months in delivering budget 2025, the fifth and final budget of this Government. The delivery of this final budget gives us a moment to reflect. When the Green Party contested the election in 2020, we did so proposing a manifesto entitled Towards 2030: A decade of change....
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: What about record homelessness?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and a series of actions, which would make things much worse-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Record homelessness.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----fewer houses, slower building and cancelled support for first-time buyers. That is the reality of Sinn Féin's brave new future.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: 14 years-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin would destroy the prospects of first-time buyers.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Social housing. What about that, Micheál?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: This budget is particularly significant - through the Chair, if I could -
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Just one speaker, Deputy Stanley.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He is doing a speech for Sinn Féin. He needs to finish it now.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: They do not want to hear it.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: They do not want to hear the truth.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Why are you-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: Deputy Mac Lochlainn, there is one speaker please. Le do thoil.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is Sinn Féin would screw first-time buyers. It would destroy them. It would get rid of help-to-buy and the first home schemes, the grants and would take away any support and assistance that is currently there. What we are saying to first-time buyers is that the help-to-buy scheme will be there until 2029. They can plan with certainty, save with certainty and be in a...