Dáil debates
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Ceisteanna - Questions
Cabinet Committees
4:35 pm
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source
I will ask the Taoiseach to correct the record on something he said regarding the first group of questions. He said that when the tents were removed, all those people were offered other accommodation. That is not the case. A story published online in The Irish Times in the past half hour stated that tents on a Dublin canal had been cleared again leaving approximately 40 men without accommodation this afternoon after another multi-agency operation. It could be said that just happened but the same thing happened - maybe the Taoiseach does not know about it - and the same story existed on 1 May, when tents were removed and 30 men were left without accommodation.
My transport question is on the issue of a private jet ban. The Government has backed off from any suggestion of a ban on private jets. That appears to be after lobbying by the US-based National Business Aviation Association and American multinationals. They sent what were effectively threatening emails to the Minister, Deputy Coveney. How can we not deal with the big, rich emitters but ask ordinary people to take action?
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