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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Matt Shanahan: We held a remembrance event in Waterford on Saturday to mark the recent passing of Brendan Cummins, someone who I recommended to the Taoiseach to the board of SETU. Brendan was a global CEO of Ciba-Geigy for many years and a board member of two companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but it was his civic work in Waterford he will be most remembered for, especially his outstanding...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: First, the Deputy referenced anger and toxicity in politics. While anger and toxicity, when manifested in the way some local election candidates across the political divide have experienced it, is utterly unacceptable and should always be called out by all of us, as I know the Deputy would, my overwhelming experience when I engage with people right across this country is that people are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I sometimes get bemused when I am making these statements because I wonder do I see different evidence from what the Taoiseach does when he responds to me. I would make the point here that the Taoiseach has raised the issues of SETU and what is happening. I point out to the Taoiseach that there has been no delivery on the promises that were given there, be it the courses, the teaching...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy has every right to vigorously represent his constituents in Waterford here, as he does, and I respect that. I have a right to put across the Government's view too. We promised a technological university. It is in the programme for Government. It has been delivered. We promised ring-fenced research funding. It has been delivered. We promised that we would help secure the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland's recognition of the state of Palestine is an historic step in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and human rights for the Palestinian people. I commend all those who campaigned for this over many decades. Today, the people of Gaza continue to endure slaughter, displacement and starvation inflicted upon them by an Israel that acts with impunity. Israel's attacks on...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Seven months of public outrage and protests have finally forced the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. I hope that is going to be accompanied by sanctions. I wish to discuss another protest that will happen this Saturday at the Customs House over the Government’s failed housing policies. This comes at an appropriate moment, given that the Housing Commission has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We will publish the Housing Commission report today. It is a bit old-fashioned, but it is useful to read things before commenting on them with such authority. Before the Deputy wraps himself in the recommendations of the report, I recommend that he read them. I received the report last night. There are 83 recommendations, 500 actions and subactions, 400 pages of text and three years of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has probably read it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I have read it because that is the useful thing to do-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not had a chance yet.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: -----when one is Taoiseach. When one gets a report the night before, one reads it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave it to the press, not to us.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I would advise the Deputy to read it when it is published, too, and then we can have a more informed discussion on it because the report very clearly talks about the need for diverse funding models. Yes, we need and have record levels of Exchequer development, but this idea of private investment and diverse sources of investment being the devil incarnate is not what the report has found. It...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For those who are not convinced by the Taoiseach's answer, the housing protest will be outside Customs House at 2.30 p.m. this Saturday. I hope people will come out onto the streets for it. No one disputes that there will be a private sector in housing, but the private sector should not be subsidised at the expense of delivering the social and affordable housing that it is incapable of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is picking one line out of approximately 400 pages of a report, which I accept he has not had an opportunity to get or read yet, but what I would suggest-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been phoning the journalist to try to get it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We will be publishing it today. When the Deputy sees the actions, he will see that many of them are underway. We agree with many of them, by the way. Many of them are in line with Government policy. Many of them are things that we are working on right now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down a land price registry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy O'Callaghan will fully agree.