Results 321-340 of 1,020,565 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Marian Harkin)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Fillfidh mé ar cheist na Palaistíne. Cuirim fáilte roimh chinneadh an Rialtais aitheantas a thabhairt don Stát mar stát neamhspleách. Is céim chun cinn é sin ach tá gá le briathra eile agus le réimse leathan gníomhartha a dhéanamh anois chun beart a dhéanamh de réir ár mbriathar. I am returning to Palestine....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Cathal Berry: I raise the issue of road safety, especially in advance of the bank holiday weekend. Fatality statistics are trending in the wrong direction again, which is unfortunate and sad. At the last count, there were already 79 fatalities this year, which is ten more than the same period last year. We know what the reasons are for these things. We know it is driver behaviour, speeding, driving...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Berry for raising this important issue. I absolutely will take that meeting. We would benefit greatly from that expertise and listening to those individuals. I am happy to do that. I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of road safety as we face into another bank holiday weekend. Everyone needs to be conscious of what are called the killer behaviours that can take...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: The rhetoric is great-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: It is not rhetoric.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: I am blue in the face acknowledging it but what we are asking for is action that is proportionate. The Taoiseach is talking about wanting the EU to use every lever available to it and that is precisely what I am asking him to do. There actions we can take as a sovereign State, while the EU has not come round to the very obvious breach of the human rights clauses in the EU-Israel trade...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not calling the EU out. We are part of the EU. We joined it, are members of it and are around the table. What I am doing every single day with colleagues across Government, including the Tánaiste, is working at a European level to help bring about the actions that need to happen. Europe has not covered itself in glory in relation to this humanitarian catastrophe. I am very...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: It is entirely possible, although it might be a new one on Deputy McDonald, to be able to report progress in an area of societal challenge and still wish to do more in that area. I travel around the country, as I am sure does the Deputy, most of the time anyway. As she travels around the country, I am sure she sees plenty of examples of new homes being built. I am sure she knocks on the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: There are 4,000 children homeless.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We still wish to do more. Fewer than 1% of residential property transactions saw the higher rate of stamp duty. I want to see more. I want to see it reviewed. The Government intends to review it in the context of the budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: Every week I think we have witnessed the limits of human cruelty and depravity when it comes to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Each week, I am proven wrong. Israel's missile strike on Sunday evening on a tented refugee camp in Rafah was not just a despicable human rights violation; it was depraved and inhumane. On Sunday night, displaced men, women and children cowering in tents were...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for raising this very important issue. Like her, I too welcome the fact that today Ireland will recognise the State of Palestine. It is a significant moment, an historic moment and an important moment to recognise that you cannot have a two-state solution without recognising two states. Also, I hope to create a positive momentum towards more countries now...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I am grateful to have the opportunity to expand on this important issue because it is always important when it comes to housing - one of the biggest intergenerational challenges of our time - that the Government is willing to listen and to respond. Something we did not hear from the previous speaker is that we live in a country where every working day, we see so many homes being built, where...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes, absolutely
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am astonished therefore if what the Taoiseach is saying is accurate why is it out on the canvass that the Taoiseach hears so much about this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Simon Harris: That is not accurate
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: If the Government's response has been so effective, how is it that the Taoiseach hears these accounts of vulture funds snatching up family homes when out on the canvass?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Are the people on the ground wrong as well? We live in a country where we have sky-high housing prices, sky-high rents, and record homelessness. Young people and their parents are frankly in despair. The Government's housing policy is not working and the Taoiseach should do a little bit more canvassing if he doubts me-----