Results 301-320 of 1,038,757 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Michael McNamara OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Minister is here as leader of the Green Party and a Green Party Minister. I just want him to hear what I am actually saying. One of the two main pipes taking sewage through the estuary of the Corrib out to Mutton Island is in imminent danger of collapse. Can the Minister imagine what that means for the area alone, for health and for housing? Back in 2007, it was recognised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: Since Deputy Harris became Taoiseach, there has been a dominant message from this Government trying to make the lives of international protection applicants as miserable as possible. The Government has announced plans to cut their meagre allowances and to charge them to stay in institutional settings. The Minister's Department is enforcing transfers from international protection applicant...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: No one is evicted from international protection accommodation. I want to make that clear. In a situation where people have status, they are entitled to the full range of supports we spoke about earlier that people in the international protection application process are not entitled to. When people get their status, they are entitled to the same set of rights and supports as every Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Back in July, Kerry County Council was notified that Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, is undertaking a review of the planned expenditure for 2024 against the overall budget for national roads, active travel schemes and greenways. Pending completion of this review, it requested that the council not proceed to tender on four projects. This money was allocated to County Kerry. However,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. He is right that I know where Killarney is. I had a very enjoyable experience of visiting it with my family for a weekend in July. On the journey there, like pretty much everyone, we spent 30 minutes caught in the notorious traffic jam in Adare. As we were caught there, I noticed the work on the Adare bypass-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Were you on a bike?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: -----which is a roads project approved and funded by the Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is no good to the people of Kerry today.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy would probably agree that the project will probably be of benefit to many of his constituents when it has been completed. I make that point because the Government is building new road infrastructure and upgrading existing roads. No doubt the Deputy was at the opening of the Listowel bypass last month, another major piece of new infrastructure in the Deputy's constituency. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: As the Minister knows, this payment is nothing to do with the temporary protection directive. This is Irish legislation. We can change, end or amend it. Indeed, we argued that existing Ukrainian residents would be supported but that the policy should not displace homes that should be available to the private rental sector. The Government voted against that in February. This is why we are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. It is important to state that this payment is allowing us to meet the accommodation needs of Ukrainians who are here as a legal right under the temporary protection directive. It is an extremely important part of the State's accommodation offering. Thousands of Ukrainians have a legal right to be in this country under the temporary protection directive. We meet their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We put the amendments down. The Government voted against them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy said what he does not want-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, we put amendments down-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: -----but has not indicated what he does want.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----stating what should happen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Whoever is the Minister has to find the accommodation. He or she cannot draw those kind of lines in terms of what will not happen. The Minister has to show where accommodation will be provided.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not once address my point about the unfairness of what is involved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: At the weekend, when asked to explain the spiralling homelessness figures, the Taoiseach blamed vulnerable migrants. He said homeless numbers are now heavily impacted by people seeking international protection. This, as the Minister knows, is not true. The biggest correlating factor in the context of rising homelessness in Ireland is not rising migration, it is Fine Gael in government....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for the question. For clarity, I spoke to media at some length about this on Monday, but I am very happy to restate what I said at that point. We have to be absolutely factual when we are dealing with these issues and are in a situation where we have a homelessness crisis, where many people are in really difficult situations, where we have a humanitarian response to the...