Results 241-260 of 31,221 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I agree with Deputy Bruton’s point. Some time ago, a campaign was run by the Revenue Commissioners to make people aware of the entitlements they could avail of within the tax code. The Deputy’s idea was a good one and I will follow up with the Ministers for Finance and Social Protection. The allowances to which he referred can make a considerable difference to taxpayers and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I acknowledge that the Deputy has been raising this consistently over recent months. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, and I are very much aware of his keen interest in this and his determination to try to find a way to resolve it. Given that this is a complex matter and that there may well be negotiations that will happen in the future, I do not want to undermine our ability to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and I are aware of the issue being raised by Deputy Smith. As for what has happened here, I believe that five separate attempts have been made to find a replacement for the GP who retired. Five separate recruitment campaigns have been run. As the Deputy is aware, more so than I am, these services have been provided on a locum basis since 2020. The HSE...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: With the permission of the House, the question from Deputy Healy-Rae will be answered by the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, the question asked by Deputy Costello will be answered by the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman and Deputy Wynne's question will be dealt with by the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. Regarding the questions put to me, I assure the Deputy that whatever the Minister, Deputy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, and the Department, will continue to engage with schools and families in relation to all of this. It should be emphasised that when schools are notified of their special education teacher allowance for this September, there will be an increase of 1,000 teachers to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Again, I offer my condolences to Ms Delaney's family. Deputy Bacik raised the same matter with me some moments ago. This is the reason the Government is committed to building 9,300 social homes this year through our local authorities and approved housing bodies. This will give us the ability to respond back and support those who are on our housing lists and those using our homeless...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy does a disservice to road safety by claiming that the reason Kildare receives funding for roads is because it is close to Dublin-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Criteria are laid out that lead to the allocation of funding to local authorities-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I will most certainly engage with and raise the matter with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----because I am aware how important is the investment in our roads to try to prevent the alarming risks that we are seeing with road safety. It is getting worse. I accept that this is a very important matter.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: What public service broadcasting needs is confidence regarding the money that will be available to it in the years ahead, which is what the television licence has offered in the past. If it is to be scrapped, there will be a need to find €130 million or €150 million from someplace else. That is money we will not be able to spend in responding to the issues just raised by party...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: When the Deputy raised this important question earlier, I referred to the budget funding available to homelessness services. This funding ensured that 1,161 households were prevented from entering emergency accommodation through the creation of a tenancy. During 2023 we saw a 25% increase in the number of adults prevented from going into homelessness versus the previous year. The urgency...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank all the Deputies for the different issues they raised. To begin with the issue raised by Deputies McDonald and Bacik, the Minister, Deputy Martin, is going to be in front of an Oireachtas committee for many hours this evening. She will then be in the Dáil tomorrow afternoon making a statement, hearing the views of Deputies and responding at the end to the questions that are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know, but you could have fleshed it out a little more-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----just to give a bit of acknowledgement of the support that is being offered. I am going to come on to Deputy McGrath in a moment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You just wait over there, the Deputy who does not know what an ecosystem is.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We voted for that legislation-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Government Members voted for that legislation because, of course, we appreciate how complex this is. Of course we appreciate the concerns that are there, but this kind of law is needed to put in place the steps that give us a chance of protecting our nature in the time ahead.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Very briefly, I would not like Deputy McGrath to think I am forgetting him for a moment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course I know what an ecosystem is. It is our nature, our food and our environment, which we are in a battle to protect. Those who know it the most are our farmers, who are closest to nature, and the Government will spare no effort-----