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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Haughey: As expected, there was a shift to the right across Europe in the recent European Parliament elections, with migration and the response to climate change emerging as key issues during the campaign. However, it seems the centrist coalition has held, by and large. The coalition is made up of the European People's Party, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe, and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: Who is being elevated?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not sure the Tánaiste would. Under our coalition agreement, the Tánaiste will bring a name to Cabinet for consideration. What Deputy Haughey said about the importance of timeliness is a statement of fact in this regard, and I and the Tánaiste share that view. I should say that the process is as the Deputy said. The European Council last night took stock of the European...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire. I will. I am aware of that recommendation from the commission and the importance of the issue that the Deputy highlighted. I will certainly ask the Minister for housing to respond to the Deputy formally in respect of it, but I will also see what we can do in the forthcoming budget.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Willie O'Dea: I also wish to be associated with the tributes paid to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I am sure the Taoiseach will agree with me that this country derives significant benefit from the work done by carers. Unfortunately not all carers are treated equally. In many cases, the backup or ancillary services for carers depend on where you live. There are some parts of the country where such...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I am sorry. I was not talking over the Deputy. Rather, I was talking to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on this important issue to get the most up-to-date information. The short answer is “Yes”. It is our intention, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler’s intention, to implement that recommendation in the programme for Government. This week, I will meet...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Matt Carthy: Several times, I have raised the Government’s failure to adequately provide services for children with special needs in County Monaghan. Many families are in crisis because of the lack of services. In Monaghan, we have no overnight respite care and no special school, we have a shortage in occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, and we have lengthy delays in assessments...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I will meet them. I will not be able to meet them tomorrow, so I do not want to mislead them, but if the Deputy wants to contact my office, I am happy to arrange to meet them with him and other Oireachtas colleagues from Cavan-Monaghan. I am aware of the issues that the Deputy and other Deputies have raised in the House. Perhaps I will ask the relevant Ministers to attend as well. We...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: Will the Taoiseach outline the Government’s policy on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, between the EU and Canada? Does the Government intend to make changes to the Arbitration Act, as was suggested by the Supreme Court, and if so, is there a timescale for that?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Stanton very much for raising this important issue. The Government remains very supportive of free trade and free trade agreements. Obviously, the Government needs to reflect on the court’s ruling. I will ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Peter Burke, to revert to the Deputy directly in terms of timelines, as I am not across that matter.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Carol Nolan: In order to prevent a shortage of school bus drivers this August or, as it may be in some cases, September when schools reopen, I call on the Government to intervene immediately with Bus Éireann and the RSA, which advises on policy, to try to deal with the current policy whereby people cannot remain on as drivers after reaching 70 years of age. The policy is discriminatory and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I instinctively agree with the Deputy. I know this causes a lot of issues in many constituencies and counties, including my own, where there is someone who is willing and able to drive the bus but is told that, because of an arbitrary age on his or her birth certificate, he or she cannot drive the bus. It is offensive to those individuals and is problematic for our constituents who are...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I have often raised the issue of University Hospital Waterford, which is the least funded of our model 4 hospitals and has the lowest ratio of healthcare practitioners to beds in such hospitals. I wish to discuss the stroke unit today, though. University Hospital Waterford receives more than 1,000 stroke patients every year, yet it has only five stroke unit beds and two single rooms. One...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: My thanks to Deputy Shanahan for raising the issues in respect of University Hospital Waterford. My understanding is that 96 additional beds have been announced in the past three years for the hospital, and rightly so. They are needed in Waterford and the wider south east. Specifically regarding the stroke issue the Deputy raised, I will raise it with the Minister for Health. I will...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Last but by no means least, I call Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I suppose I had better say something nice about Eamon Ryan, seeing as how others have. Eamon was the reason I joined the party in 2015. Many of us in the House can describe a problem, but few people put a solution to that problem afterwards. I have got to know Eamon since 2020. He is a great politician, but he is a better man.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to raise the issue of post offices. They are a vital piece of community infrastructure. Postmasters are falling between two stools at the moment. They are suffering from cost-of-living increases. Many of them have missed out on the increased cost of business scheme, ICOB. As many as 50% cannot avail of it. They have funding out to 2025 but will have to negotiate a new seven-year...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: As is perhaps fitting from a Green Party Deputy, that was the most accurate tribute I have heard to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. He is a good politician and an even better man. That is certainly my experience. I am conscious that today is a difficult and challenging day for the Green Party – it always is when there are moments of transition – and I wish the Deputy and his...
- Estimates for Public Services 2024 (18 Jun 2024)