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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: This climate challenge belongs to everyone. I do not believe there are deniers in this House. The science is so clear. However, we need to become climate supporters. I was thinking in advance about what the Deputy might ask today. I thought about that issue of being close to the ground. I spent most of my time, prior to coming in here, working with the good people down in County Kerry....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We cannot go back to that situation where our schools were closed for a prolonged time and our leaving cert students were in a state of uncertainty. I do not believe we will. We are in a very different place now. As difficult as the situation is at the moment, it is completely different to where we were last January, last October or any other period where our hospital system really was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I am aware that the Deputy attended the meeting of the transport committee yesterday at which we looked at some of these issues, but he was not able to ask these particular questions. I am glad he can avail of the chance to do so today. As he heard yesterday, we have some €5.1 billion allocated to national roads under the NDP between now and 2030. The reality is that a large...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Le cúpla seachtain anuas, agus ag deireadh an tsamhraidh, bhíomar ag déileáil leis an dóigh atá an Rialtas ag láimhseáil ceapacháin go dtí boird an Stáit. Tráthnóna inniu beidh an Coiste um Airgeadas, Caiteachas Poiblí agus Athchóiriú, agus an Taoiseach; agus an Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí ag cur tuairisc...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: -----wherein a Government Department and a Minister are best placed to be able to set up this advisory board. It is a very specific board, very different to any of the other commercial or semi-State boards all being appointed at the one time, and it required that a chair and a board be put in place very quickly in order for us to be able to meet our climate advisory targets. To my mind, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party is determined to work with the Government to ensure that our schools remain open. We know, as the Government knows, how profoundly damaging it was for children and young people when our schools were closed, particularly those children and young people who are disadvantaged and those who have additional needs. I know that the Minister agrees with me on that, but he will have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: I welcome confirmation that the much anticipated motor link between Cahir and Limerick Junction has been included in the national development plan, NDP. The provision of this vital link not only makes sense but is crucial to providing safe road infrastructure. Equally important at this time is the provision of a bypass for Tipperary town. The Minister has acknowledged this need and is on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is correct that it is best when we have worked collectively and collegially. That is recognised. It has helped us in the last year and ten months of managing this Covid pandemic and we should keep doing that. The Deputy is also correct that it is important that we keep all of our education establishments open, including at third level as well as primary and post-primary levels...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Lowry: It is not usual for me to get good news, a Cheann Comhairle, so I certainly welcome the Minister's commitment to the project. I acknowledge that support, from the time I made the proposal to him and to the House that a bypass for Tipperary town be prioritised and should happen as the start of any project to upgrade the N24. It makes sense and I am glad he still agrees with the proposal. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The public wants open and transparent government. It wants the old-style politics of sorting out people you know to be finished with. The Minister has seen the public anger at the stroke that Fine Gael pulled in the summer with Katherine Zappone. They do not like it. It should be a thing of the past. We are not calling into question people's qualifications. The Minister might want to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have always said and I am sure of the fact that the Minister is a nice and sincere man. However, he and the late Michael Jackson hold one thing in common and that is the two of them lived in never never land. I would like to welcome the Minister today into the real world where people are struggling to pay for their electricity, home heating oil and children's education and to carry on...