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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: As we are out of time, I will take 30-second questions from the two remaining Deputies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Two years ago this week, tens of thousands of third level students led by USI walked out of lecture theatres to protest over the student accommodation crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. Two years on, they will do exactly the same this Thursday, 17 October at 11.30 a.m. Most of their problems have only got worse. The housing crisis has got worse and the cost-of-living crisis has got...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, you are taking up other Members' time. I call Deputy Bacik.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is some weeks since the budget but those locked out of securing housing are realising how little it does for them because house prices and rents are still going up and availability is not keeping pace with demand for homes. I know the Taoiseach will agree on this because we are all so aware of the chronic housing shortage and the impact it is having on so many people and communities. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I do not accept the presentation on Housing for All because we have seen housing supply very significantly increase. There were fewer than 7,000 homes built in 2011 when my party and Deputy Bacik's went into government after the financial crash. That figure will be closer to 40,000 this year. I agree that there is a need for new targets. I also agree that there is a need to significantly...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Five women in Northern Ireland have been killed in the space of just seven weeks: Sophie Watson, Montserrat Martorell, Rachel Simpson, Mary Ward and Mandy Magill. Per capita, Northern Ireland is now one of the most dangerous places in Europe to be a woman. Violence against women is an epidemic and always has been. Our society, culture and institutions are steeped in violence against women...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is entirely right to make the point that domestic, sexual and gender-based violence absolutely does not respect any borders. She makes a very fair and interesting point about the need to see if we can collaborate on the island of Ireland on this. I know from memory that the Northern Ireland Executive very recently launched its own strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tens of thousands of health workers across the health service are balloting for industrial action against the pay and numbers strategy. I have raised this with the Taoiseach, the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Health repeatedly over recent weeks. Workers are feeling forced to take industrial action because the pay and numbers strategy, despite...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: We are nowhere near strike action. I understand that a ballot was begun by the INMO today and that FÓRSA will begin a ballot later this week. Any objective, fair analysis would acknowledge that growth in numbers of staff in our health service has never been as high, with recruitment in 2023 being the highest since the foundation of the Health Service Executive. As of August 2024,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Cathal Berry: I support the Government's position and indeed, that of the Opposition, in respect of what is happening in south Lebanon at the moment where we have one man who is trying to hold the entire world to ransom. He wants to turn Beirut into Mariupol and Lebanon into Gaza and the only thing standing in his way is the thin blue line of UN peacekeepers. Mr. Netanyahu is claiming that the best way...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for his own service and expertise in this area and I absolutely and fully agree with him. Peacekeepers and peacekeeping have a very particular level of protection in international law and in terms of international norms regarding conflict. When I spoke to President Herzog of Israel yesterday, I made it clear to him in the strongest possible terms that what Israel had done...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the case of Lorraine, a 55-year-old Cashel woman who requires a patient transfer service by ambulance from her home in Cashel to UHL tomorrow at 11 a.m. for an infusion to prevent a further relapse in her multiple sclerosis. Her mother Kathleen is 82 years of age. This is a very sad situation. The trip did not happen last week because the voluntary ambulance service driver...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will certainly look into the ambulance situation and ask the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, to revert to the Deputy on it. Obviously, in relation to his constituent, Lorraine, who has multiple sclerosis and her transport situation, I do not have the information to hand but I will pass that directly on to the Minister for Health and ask that the HSE would reach out to the Deputy and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I am sure the Taoiseach will have seen media reports of the high-profile case of Naveed Rana, a taxi driver who was jailed last week for five and a half years for repeatedly sexually assaulting a young woman he was driving home. At the time of the assault, Mr. Rana was reported to be out on bail for serious drug offences. Does the Taoiseach agree that it is completely unacceptable for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this extraordinarily important issue. He is entirely right on the importance of people being and feeling safe as they access transport, including taxis. I recently met with the Ministers for Transport and Justice and their officials specifically on the issue of safety on public transport, including taxis. My understanding from memory is that the Minister...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: Families of children with disabilities in County Monaghan are extremely frustrated by the way they have been treated by this Government. They describe their lives as a battle every day just to get the services they need. Monaghan needs a special school but Ministers continually point to a process without explaining what that process is or what criteria have led to the situation whereby...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will do my best to get through the many requests that the Deputy has made.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: Just to meet them. That is the request. Will the Taoiseach meet them?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will, but I will also speak-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: When?