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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The veil has slipped for a second time when it comes to Aontú on jobs within our economy. It is not so long ago I was in this Chamber when Deputy Tóibín referred to people who were working for large employers as transitional jobs. Here today, the Deputy now referred to corporate tax profitability receipts as "bargain basement".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I invite Deputy Tóibín to walk into the large employers for which many of his constituents work and tell them that the efforts that they are putting in are bargain basement and that the taxes their work is creating are bargain basement. I invite the Deputy to do a tour of the large employers across our country that have played such a critical role in paying the tax at a time we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: That is the Aontú agenda. That is your agenda, Deputy Tóibín. I hear it again and again. As the veil slips, it is also characterised by typical misinformation from the Deputy. I heard the Minister, Deputy Chambers, on "Morning Ireland" this morning. I heard him outline a number of different things, including the reality that we have to yet consider what the United States...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Leave the tribalism aside. That is a bit rich coming from the Deputy in this regard. He asked me the question regarding what engagement the Government, the Tánaiste has had-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----with the Secretary of State of the United States of America during the week and the fact the Taoiseach will meet President Trump next week. I have engaged with the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, through a G7 meeting that happened last week. I have met twice with the organisation that is, on a global level, involved in dealing with this issue. That is the engagement we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Go into those companies and tell them-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that the tax receipts they are involved in generating are bargain basement and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----perhaps he might tell them again that their jobs are transitional.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Sherlock knows we are treating this issue with urgency. She knows that. She knows the Minister is and she has acknowledged that to me. She knows we are working on it. The Deputy does the issue a disservice by suggesting otherwise. I ask her to please acknowledge, as I have done, that if this was an issue that was simple and that could easily be dealt with, we would already have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. As he began his contribution, I will begin mine by acknowledging the huge anxiety and distress that families can face when young girls and boys with additional needs need additional support and have various conditions that we want to make a difference to. We see what that does to them for their start in life, and what it does to their families, their mams and dads, who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy again for raising the issue. I can make the case to him that the vacancy rate within these healthcare professions has decreased. It has decreased from 29% in 2023 to 21% in 2024, and that is an improvement, but we have so much further to go because we know the level of human need that is there. We know we need to be helping families and the children they love so much in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: It is interesting Deputy Cullinane should bring up the election because he is representing the most unsuccessful opposition party in Europe at present. It is the only opposition party that managed to go into an election at a time prices were high and lose votes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: It lost votes. The reason it lost votes is because the people of Ireland knew the economic policies it was bringing forward were not credible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: If you promise everything, you are for nothing. You were seen through at that time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I have noticed the trend that Sinn Féin has now, whereby it grows unhappy when I interrupt its heckling. This will not deter me-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and it will not deter the Government from doing two things-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----first, from calling out the fact that Sinn Féin's economic policies and solutions were seen through.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Where would we be now if we had followed its policies and been entering into a scenario with a Government borrowing while jobs were at risk.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: That is what Sinn Féin offered. It was seen through.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As I said, despite the best efforts of the Sinn Féin Opposition-----