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Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will begin by stating the absolutely central importance of child protection. While central to work in my Department, it must be something that every one of us is cognisant of and takes with the utmost seriousness. It is simply too important to be used as a political football. Tusla, which falls within the remit of my Department, has a statutory duty under the Child Care Act 1991 to...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Sexual exploitation of children is one of the most grotesque and serious crimes that exist. It is a crime which causes misery in the lives of children and families. We all must do everything in our power to stamp it out. This is a growing problem, with abusers continuing to abuse positions of power and making greater use of technology and online spaces to hide and commit their crimes. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Economic Policy

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [36689/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40038/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40041/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 to 12, inclusive, together. Last month, I chaired the Government’s inaugural competitiveness summit. In attendance were relevant Ministers, together with the chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, a senior representative of the OECD, and the chief executives of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland among others from those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it would be fair to describe the Cherrywood development as a flagship development for Ireland presenting itself as a place where there is quality of life, there is the housing we need and where you have all the amenities, facilities, infrastructure and so on necessary for a place where people can live and work. It is the biggest residential development in the country. I do not like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the question of housing come up at the competitiveness summit? It is clearly a major issue in workers being able to have affordable housing somewhere in some sort of achievable commutable distance from their work. It seems that a key issue continues to be the fact that councils are taking public land and selling it off for very low prices to private developers as opposed to having a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to deal with the issue of pharma in Dundalk. Before that I bring up an issue, I brought up previously about Dundalk Grammar School. It set up a GAA team in the past while, which was supported by parents, students and Louth GAA. It has played in the Lennon Cup but has been given an order by the board to desist. It has caused huge consternation. I have never seen anything cause as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank colleagues for their questions. I turn first to Deputy Boyd Barrett's question on Cherrywood. I will inquire with the Department of housing about the situation with the town centre. I can say without getting overly involved, as someone who does not live a million miles away, that I know the scale of development that has happened there. There is no doubt a requirement for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And shops.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: What I do not have, and what I cannot cut across are the planning conditions, but I will certainly inquire with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and ask that we revert to the Deputy on the issue. I thank him for highlighting it. On Deputy Murphy's question, the issue of housing was raised at the competitiveness summit and the issue of housing is raised in all commentary and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the shocking case of a new social housing development, St. Germaine, in Ballybrack in my area. It is in the hands of Co-operative Housing Ireland, an AHB, and was built by a developer called Kavco. It was finished at the end of last year and there are 31 units with many families. I met people the other day and, while they were delighted that,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: One of the issues that is having the greatest negative impact on the well-being of children is the rising number of children who are forced to grow up in emergency accommodation and overcrowded hotel rooms, staying there for months if they are “lucky” or even for years. The scourge of child homelessness is worsening no matter how often we are told that the situation is going to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach and I have spoken many times about autism services and the issues facing families. Recently, I met the All Abilities Action Alliance in Louth about school places. There are anomalies in the number of special needs classes that are available in Louth at primary and secondary levels. I have already submitted a couple of follow-up questions on this matter, but we need clarity....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I support the point raised by Deputy Boyd Barrett regarding the completion of what would be local authority houses in private estates. From my examination, the finishing leaves much to be desired. The houses were meant for social housing, be it on the local authority side or the approved housing body side.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: They are not up to the required standard or in keeping with the standard of the rest of the development. Within a very short space of time, they have started showing flaws such as leakages, dampness, poor plumbing, poor electrics, etc. The real tell-tale of any development is the finish in the bathrooms, where the tiling can clearly be at variance with the standard found in the rest of the...