Results 181-200 of 1,033,761 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Malcolm Byrne OR speaker:Patricia Ryan)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----given the prowess of its club, which I know only too well. However, it is a problem. We need to engage again with Irish Water in respect of the allocation of funding for the future with a view to saying that it is not just the bigger cities we want prioritised and that we want towns and villages looked after in the context of wastewater treatment plants. There is a consequential...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: While I mentioned Corofin, some 30 towns and villages in County Galway are earmarked for wastewater development. At the same time, we are creating restrictions in respect of rural housing. We are telling people they cannot live in the rural areas and telling them to move into the towns and villages. Houses cannot be built there and the urgency is not there. Craughwell in County Galway was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Make or take?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: My assertions amounted to a request that all Government Ministers clarify the full interactions they have had with Israeli Government Ministers and state officials. You did not answer whether that would be forthcoming. You set out very clearly and rightly the realities of Israeli actions in both Palestine and Lebanon, but you did not set out any consequences for those actions. I have no...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: Again, Ireland along with Spain, were the first more recent European Union member states to recognise the State of Palestine. Slovenia has now followed on the recognition question and Norway also did that. We were central to turning around the narrative on UNRWA within the European Union and stopping the denial of vital aid into UNRWA, and likewise in terms of aid and support from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are way over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: In five day's time we will have the annual budget. True to form, most of the major announcements will be leaked over the weekend. The State is in an unprecedented situation. Billions are available to invest yet there is a poverty of ambition and no vision. We live in a rich country that feels so poor. It is a country of winners and losers. Ireland has a chronic infrastructural deficit....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his remarks. I would argue that there is no poverty of ambition. This year we are spending up to €13 billion plus on capital infrastructure, which is significantly higher than previous years. The rate and level of capital expenditure during this Government's term has been significantly higher than previous Governments. The challenge with capital expenditure,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: As we meet here, Israel's genocide in Gaza continues, Israel's attacks on the West Bank continue and now Israel's bombardment of Lebanon continues and Israeli leaders are openly discussing a land invasion. Israel is committing war crimes every day. That state is in flagrant violation of international law, just as it has been not for a year but for several decades. Today, we are on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this extremely important issue. The carnage and the slaughter of innocent children, women and men across the Middle East is to be condemned and I have condemned it consistently. The action of Hamas on 7 October 2023 was horrific and heinous, but the Israeli response to that murderous attack by Hamas has been absolutely disproportional, has resulted in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Nitrates Usage

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the nitrates derogation overwhelmingly benefits a wealthier minority of intensive farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38156/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister is aware of the major investigation into the intensive farming lobby published yesterday. The investigation says this lobby is "preventing Ireland from addressing its poor air and water quality and meeting its climate targets". Does the Minister agree that the nitrates derogation overwhelmingly benefits a wealthier minority of intensive farmers and major agrifood...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: No, I certainly do not agree. If the Deputy had spent a bit more time analysing and assessing this and informing himself of this issue, he would not be making those assertions across the floor of the Dáil. No matter the issue he is addressing, it is always Deputy Murphy's approach to paint life as a competition between oligarchs and the wider population. He is trying to do the same...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister suggests that I should inform myself and, perhaps for the tenth time, says I should travel outside the M50. For the tenth time, I will tell him that I live outside the M50. People right across this country have a right to have input into how our farming is done and on the impact on our environment. I ask the Minister to inform me. When the cut to the derogation rate was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Again, Deputy Murphy is bending over backwards to present this in his favoured manner of oligarchs against the rest of the world. As I said to him, we have approximately 17,000 dairy farmers. Among those 17,000, the average number of cows is about 90. Of those 17,000 dairy farmers, about 40% farm in derogation. The average income across those 17,000 was €49,000.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister tell me about the 7,000?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I expect it would be the same or very close to it. The average number of cows is 90. It is really important for those farmers, particularly those whose viability and capacity to continue into the future depend on that derogation, that we maintain it. As I have said, we are very confident that we can do that, looking to improve our water quality while supporting those farmers. Any removal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nitrates Usage (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister did not give me the figures for the average income of the 7,000. That is what I am interested in getting. He suggests that it is some sort of conspiracy theory to say that the economy is run by very wealthy corporations - he used the term "oligarchs" - but it is not; it is the reality. Let us look at who is lobbying to retain the nitrates derogation. Glanbia made €117...