Results 41-60 of 108 for in 'Dáil debates' segment:8890865
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: It suits Fine Gael and Sinn Féin to make this about those two political parties. There are other political parties here. This is one of the few times I get a chance to ask a question and it is an important question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please resume your seat Deputy and I will ask the Taoiseach to respond.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I was distracted about the personal slurs Deputy McDonald made about my character, rather than engaging on political issues. In response to Deputy Tóibín, we are proudly seeking to join the EU migration pact. It is good for the country and for Europe. We are looking forward to teasing through and debating the detail in this House, the Seanad and at the justice committee and we...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Michael Collins: Small businesses are going through the most horrendous time, especially in the past few months. Cafés, restaurants, pubs and family hotels are closing at an alarming rate. Hundreds have already closed this year. Businesses the length and breadth of the island are pleading for help in an effective way but to date, the call has gone unheeded by the Government. Last week, the Government...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising the important matter of small businesses and especially mentioning a number of them in what we call the hospitality sector, cafés, restaurants, pubs and others. I fully accept they have been struggling to absorb significant costs and have been operating in an environment of high inflation, rising costs and a number of charges that have come at them all...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Rubbish
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----to provide policy certainty as to what the next few years will look like with respect to the cost of doing business in Ireland.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The Taoiseach said he fully accepted the sector is struggling. Unfortunately, VAT is the problem here. The Government does not seem to understand that since the VAT rate went up, restaurants and cafés all over the country are shutting down. Door after door is banging shut. The Taoiseach does not grasp the crisis here. On his election as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for committing to meet Cara Darmody and her family. They will be really appreciative of that. As he said, that meeting will take place in the next few weeks. They have new information. They have been incredibly impactful - I must say that and pay tribute to them - in raising awareness about the lack of services, lack of autism services and services for neurodiverse...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I look forward to meeting Cara and working with Deputies who are like-minded on this issue across this House. It is an area in which we can make progress together but one in which we really need to do that. I will check with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, but my memory tells me the publication of that document is imminent. The strategy is much awaited and a lot of work has gone...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Last week, the Taoiseach made a full commitment to supporting Ukraine's sovereignty. In the same week, he made an argument for Ireland to cede sovereignty to the European Union in the EU migration pact. Sovereignty is no small thing. It means that the people of this country can self-determine the laws that govern us, they can influence the elected representatives and hold them to account....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I can shake my head if I wish to because for some of what I heard, it was quite a challenge to just keep my head movement to that. On this idea that we are ceding sovereignty and that people in Brussels are making decisions - does Deputy Tóibín not want to be a member of the European Parliament? Is he not running for election because he wants to be there making-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: We do but we do not want to cede any more sovereignty.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: What are you going to do there?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, let the Taoiseach answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us not go down the kind of Brexit Britain road here of Brussels bad, Ireland good. The reality is we are members of the European Union. After I finish taking questions, I will head to Brussels where I will participate in a decision-making process with other European Heads of Government. Members of the European Parliament, which the Deputy aspires to be, will vote democratically on...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We know that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I cannot hear the Deputy. When it comes to migration, it is fanciful in the extreme to think that this small little island with, thankfully, an open border - which we all worked very hard to protect during the Brexit process - could just go it alone regarding global and EU migration and that we would continue with the system in which we cannot effectively return anybody, in many ways, in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not raise with the Taoiseach the issue of wait times-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy did.