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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: As there are quite a number of speakers, they will each have a minute and a half.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy McDonald. The Taoiseach will accept that it has been difficult time for supporters of Dundalk Football Club. I wish the new consortium led by John Temple, which has taken over the club, well. We are at the beginning of a process. Dundalk FC could have gone to the wall, which would have impacted on the integrity of the entire league. There...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy's minute and a half is up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: According to the Housing Commission report, we need at least 300,000 new homes in the next five years, which is an average of 60,000 per year. Has the Taoiseach or the Minister for housing met the Housing Commission or do they have plans to meet it? Have they sought a briefing from the commission or its officials on its report? Does the Taoiseach accept the report's two key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that an affordable purchase scheme will be carried out, but the criteria regarding affordable housing need to be looked at. A price of €305,000 for a house in Dundalk is not affordable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank has followed the Housing Commission in telling us that our housing needs are twice - maybe more than twice - what Housing for All projected them to be. That is how inadequate the Housing for All plan is. To meet these targets, we have to double housing output. In particular, we have to dramatically increase the social and affordable housing component of that because what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mick Barry: Did the Taoiseach just drop a rather large hint as to the timing of a general election?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not think so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mick Barry: The Central Bank stated this morning that the number of housing completions by the end of this year will be 32,000. The Taoiseach came in and told the House that the Central Bank is wrong and the number of housing completions will be 40,000. If a general election is held in February of next year, the likelihood is that before it is held, the Taoiseach will have been shown to be wrong. It...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, I ask the Taoiseach - he gave me a commitment, but I have not heard back from him - about taxi drivers who have reached the ten-year deadline to replace their taxi. It is a very expensive business to replace a taxi. As I pointed out, people who were approaching that deadline during Covid-19 got an extension but only for certain years. Drivers of cars from 2015, 2016 and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and credit with the banks and so on. The Minister for Transport is not coming back; he is not being positive. Will the Taoiseach ask him to give the extension to those who lost income and employment during Covid?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: I brought that matter of school bus transport scheme to the Taoiseach pre-recess. He gave an undertaking that the Minister, Deputy Foley, would get in touch and do her best and he would do his best for the people of Wexford. That did not happen. Hundreds of children across the county of Wexford do not have school transport. Their working parents who are contributing hard-earned cash to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Varadkar for raising the very important issue regarding Sudan. He is right. The world is not giving this issue nearly enough attention. I am deeply concerned about the appalling conflict and the humanitarian and protection crisis in Sudan. The impact and scale of the violence on civilians, with more than 12 million people forced from their homes, has been horrific. It is...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Taoiseach very much. That concludes Questions on Policy or Legislation.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)
- Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit animal testing for botox. I am introducing the Bill for a very simple reason, which I am happy to explain to the Ceann Comhairle and others. This is a Bill to prevent unnecessary cruelty to animals. There is a ban on animal testing for cosmetic purposes across...
- Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy very much. Is the Bill being opposed?
- Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: It is not opposed.