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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for his constructive suggestions with which I agree. I am very clear, and I said it on the day that I launched the Dublin city centre task force, that this is going to come back with a list of practical actions and a list of responsible owners for those actions. Then there will be a requirement for government, both national and local, to fund those initiatives. This is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to welcome more than 45 women from all over County Kerry, especially east Kerry areas like Barraduff, Headfort, Glenflesk and Rathmore. These women have created homes and reared fine sons and daughters. However, many of their sons and daughters are forced to leave Kerry for places like Australia, Dubai and Canada. These are 28- to 32-year-olds who cannot afford to purchase a house....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Your time is up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Large tracts of land far beyond Killarney, Killorglin and Kenmare are being excluded from these people who will build a house themselves.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: They will create employment and spend money. All they want is planning permission but this designation is hurting the whole lot. I will just mention one father-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No. Please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----of five, the Kellehers, who are musicians but none of them can get planning permission.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You are out of time, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are a wonderfully gifted family but they are going to have to leave our shores if we cannot house them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please. You are out of time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is very serious.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I am trying to be agreeable on this because the Deputy raises valid and important points about road safety and we want to build a political and societal consensus around road safety which is a major issue. I have a point of difference with the Deputy to TV adverts. There is behavioural science that shows the importance of those impactful ads. Everybody in this House and anybody watching...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That concludes Leaders' Questions. Please adhere to the one minute allowed for Questions on Policy or Legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will endeavour to do so. I want to raise an important issue that affects hundreds of former Waterford Crystal workers, some of whom join us in the Gallery. It is a group that has campaigned on this matter for years. The workers said Waterford Crystal Limited failed to properly inform them of their pension options when they were taking redundancy. This left them without an occupational...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. It is one that has been brought to my attention in this House in recent weeks by her colleagues and colleagues on the Government benches. I am happy for my office to make arrangements in the coming weeks to have that meeting. I am also happy to ask the Minister for Social Protection to perhaps join me at that meeting as well. I have a note on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I join in welcoming the Waterford Crystal workers to the Gallery and the Taoiseach's commitment to meet them. This week saw more grim news on climate, with the latest projections from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, showing starkly that we are not going to meet our emissions reductions targets, have no chance of achieving a 51% reduction in emissions by 2030, even though this is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. To the very best of my knowledge, the plan is to publish that plan this week. Let me confirm that. It would be timely, subject to the agreement of the House, to have a debate on climate, the EPA report and the new national plan the Minister will publish and submit to Europe to fulfil our requirements. The EPA will acknowledge that it has not yet...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: On the same issue, the EPA stated that even if every measure in the Government's climate action plan was implemented, the reduction in emissions would only be 29% by 2030. As the Taoiseach knows, the legally binding target is 51%. We are no closer to meeting our targets than we were 12 months ago. His colleague Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications was on the defensive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: We have every plan and intention and as you said it is a legally binding target. That is why a debate in this House would be timely on that. While I accept we have a gap to close, any fair analysis of the EPA report would show that we are now on track to reduce emissions by almost 30%. Prior to this Government, we were increasing our emissions by 10% a year. To the credit of sectors of...