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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I have been present in the Dáil on several occasions when the Deputy has spoken against the HAP.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In any event, it is not my desire to politicise the plight of the two people Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is not my desire because they want to be helped and supported and I am sure if he has any information about them, they are already getting support from their local authority. I hope they are. Housing executive bodies are in place to try to prevent people becoming homeless.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I hope the housing executive body is aware of the issue and is trying to help.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy acknowledged in her question, access to medical cards is means tested. It is the case that some people who go back to work retain the card. I am afraid I am not in a position to fully answer the Deputy's question because I do not know the details. I am sure the Deputy knows them, but it would not be appropriate to raise them here. I do not know to what degree the means of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know this is a very important issue affecting the Deputy's constituents. As Deputy Stanton has said, a €22 million upgrade is now underway at Whitegate water treatment plant. I understand it is due to be completed in 2026. I know 2026 is a long way away for up to 10,000 people who are affected by a boil water notice. I will raise the issue with Uisce Éireann to see if any...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: They are questions that have more than one owner. Let me try to deal with them. Regarding the Department of Transport, I recollect that funding was made available for the airport project a number of years ago. I remember the circumstances in which it happened because of the role the airport can play in supporting large employers in Waterford, the Deputy's county, and beyond. The issue has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. Our retained firefighters do important, dangerous and difficult work. In their absence, communities such as the one the Deputy represents would not get the support and safety they need. The Minister, Deputy Dara O'Brien, has put huge effort into trying to resolve this issue. The Deputy has said there is a WRC process. Therefore, it is best that that is the way in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. Given that I do not have the information on a wastewater treatment plant, I hope the Deputy will forgive me if I cannot tell him the status of the weeds around the Rock of Cashel. I also know it is an important tourist and community asset. It is important and valued by the Deputy's constituents and I am sure he wants it to be looked after in the way it deserves. I will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I very much support the board and the work it is doing and I have confidence it is managing a very difficult situation on our behalf well. It is making the kinds of demands and putting in place the kinds of arrangements that taxpayers and the children of Ireland deserve. Yes, I expect we will see the hospital handover at that point but I know also, given all the difficulty we have had, that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of the issues the Deputy referred to with regard to the Nos. 11 and 19 bus routes. As to whether these changes been disability proofed, my understanding is that Dublin Bus does that. It does so with particular regard to the buses and bus stops to allow the kind of access the Deputy and I want to see for our constituents with disabilities. I know this is an issue for many of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy uses language like "robbing". She is condemning what is happening in Gorey - I was there recently - but, on the other hand, she is not making the situation any easier by using the word "robbing". What is happening here is people who have been elected, like the Deputy and me but at a council level, have made the decision that they want to make a change in the local property tax...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. The money made available for new roads, bypasses and the kinds of changes the Deputy referred to has increased. I am not sure what specifically is delaying the project the Deputy referred to but I will raise it with the Minister and my colleagues in the Department of Transport.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Let me emphasise again that any targeting or threatening of troops, particularly Irish troops who are fulfilling their UNIFIL duties, is to be condemned and should cease. Regarding the issue the Deputy raised about the status of the occupied territories Bill, the Tánaiste, Taoiseach and Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, received a briefing on this matter at the start of this week from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I want to say directly to the people in those towns and communities that are affected by the issues the Deputy has referred to that I am not in a position to come into the Dáil today and give a very specific answer on the status of wastewater treatment plants for different towns and villages within our country. If he had given me an indication that he was going to raise these specific...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We need action but I think we also deserve some honesty about the work of Uisce Éireann. In the Deputy's second contribution, I think he suggested that it in some way is the culprit for this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Uisce Éireann is the organisation that offers the best hope that we have of resolving this issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a great dishonesty to say on the one hand we want progress to be made in the area and then the men and women who work in the organisation capable of making a difference-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----are the ones he condemns.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: That is not a recipe for progress or a recipe for a solution. I want to offer my full support to the work that Uisce Éireann does. While we all remember the difficulty involved in setting up that organisation, it is only through a unitary water authority like that body that we will be able to put in place the investment at scale that is needed to ensure that Ireland has safe water in...