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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Dara Calleary: I welcome this year's budget provisions for enterprise and for our Department more widely. I commend the Minister, Deputy Burke, and the officials in our Department on the work they have engaged in with the Department of public expenditure in recent weeks to secure a package worth €1 billion plus for our Department next year. The Minister has reflected on how far we have come over...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 9 p.m. go dtí 10.30 a.m., Dé Déardaoin, an 3 Deireadh Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 9 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, 3 October 2024.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to come back on more parts of the budget. Obviously, budgets for infrastructure are welcome. I have touched previously on the fact that Irish Water let 350 workers and subcontractors go because there was no work going on around the country. If we are talking about building houses, obviously, we have to make sure we have the infrastructure in place. Roads, sewers,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: The hope is to extend it.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome that, if it is going to happen, because a lot of farmers have raised it today. I urge the Minister of State to try to do that if he can. One issue that has come out today, and the devil is always in the detail and things might be said that are right or wrong, is the €9 million for some sort of pouches for people to put their phones into in schools. I would like...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice. The Minister, Deputy Burke, is sharing with the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on budget 2025 in respect of my Department. It is the first time the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's budget has gone over the €1 billion mark, which is a significant increase on the previous year in terms of core expenditure. We have a number of initiatives in the context of this budget to support families and businesses right...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: I welcome the unprecedented €3.9 billion investment in transport infrastructure in the budget. Since 2020, when the Government entered office, it has increased by €1 billion in the Department alone. It has gone from just under €3 billion to just under €4 billion. This is an increase of €1 billion since the Government came office. Looking at public...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Minister for her excellent co-operation for more than a year and a half in the Department. There has not been a harsh word between us. It has been really positive and co-operative, leading to better governance and better outcomes. I am very pleased to announce some of those outcomes today. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire, leis an gCeann Comhairle agus leis na...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: I start by congratulating the women's Irish Homeless World Cup football team on their recent success in Korea. They did fantastically well. It is a huge boost to all the individuals participating in that. In particular, I mention Seán Kavanagh, a long-time supporter of the street league and the Homeless World Cup concept. I also acknowledge the homeless men's team which reached the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Any of us who have had a case like that, and there are a number of them, would be working night and day to try to resolve it for that child because it is quite tragic. It is terribly tragic.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: Is cúis áthais dom an deis a fháil an Teach a chur ar an eolas faoin maoiniú iomlán de luach €1.27 billiún atá curtha ar fáil do mo Roinn i mbuiséad 2025. Tabharfaidh mé achoimre freisin ar chuid de na bearta lena ndéanfar cothú, feabhsú agus forbairt ar na hearnálacha a bhfuil freagracht agam astu. The sectors...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are further slots for the Government but this one has not been used up. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, is down for a later slot. I will go back to Sinn Féin and call Deputy Thomas Gould for a five-minute slot.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Thomas Gould: Go raibh maith agat. When I opened the budget book yesterday, I could not believe my eyes. I checked and rechecked it, and nowhere in the budget book was the word "addiction" mentioned. In a year when the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs had recommendation after recommendation for increased funding and a priority for addiction services, this Government either forgot or could not...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Patricia Ryan: On initial inspection, budget 2025 would appear to be great value for the taxpayers' money. However, I ask any of the Ministers or Ministers of State here if any of the extra beds mentioned in the budget are part of the recently agreed public-private partnership to develop more than 530 public nursing home beds at the developer's stated cost of a whopping €471,698 per bed. Not...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not know if any of the Ministers or Ministers of State here have had a chance to read Ciara Reilly's article in the Irish Examiner. It is very powerful and concerns the way this budget, in reality, fails families with children who have additional needs. She really puts her finger on it. This applies to all the tens of thousands of children with additional needs, but even more...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is féidir leis an Teachta Ó Snodaigh teacht isteach anois nó is féidir leis fanacht. Níl aon duine eile anseo.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Níl aon duine eile anseo ag ofráil. Is é seo buiséad deireanach ó Rialtas nach raibh in ainm is a bheith ann ar an gcéad dul síos. Is cuimhin liom an Teachta Micheál Martin ag rá nach mbeadh sé go maith don tír dá mbeadh Fianna Fáil agus Fine Gael le chéile. Tháinig siad le chéile agus tá an tír tar...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Ossian Smyth: This is very much a budget for families and for parents. There is the new payment of €420 for newborn babies and the two double child benefit payments to be paid before Christmas. Childcare fees have been brought down twice and are now half what they were thanks to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. Hot school meals for all children in primary education are being provided for. There is...