Results 401-420 of 32,432 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----that the tax receipts they are involved in generating are bargain basement and-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----perhaps he might tell them again that their jobs are transitional.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Sherlock knows we are treating this issue with urgency. She knows that. She knows the Minister is and she has acknowledged that to me. She knows we are working on it. The Deputy does the issue a disservice by suggesting otherwise. I ask her to please acknowledge, as I have done, that if this was an issue that was simple and that could easily be dealt with, we would already have...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. As he began his contribution, I will begin mine by acknowledging the huge anxiety and distress that families can face when young girls and boys with additional needs need additional support and have various conditions that we want to make a difference to. We see what that does to them for their start in life, and what it does to their families, their mams and dads, who...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy again for raising the issue. I can make the case to him that the vacancy rate within these healthcare professions has decreased. It has decreased from 29% in 2023 to 21% in 2024, and that is an improvement, but we have so much further to go because we know the level of human need that is there. We know we need to be helping families and the children they love so much in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: It is interesting Deputy Cullinane should bring up the election because he is representing the most unsuccessful opposition party in Europe at present. It is the only opposition party that managed to go into an election at a time prices were high and lose votes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: It lost votes. The reason it lost votes is because the people of Ireland knew the economic policies it was bringing forward were not credible.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: If you promise everything, you are for nothing. You were seen through at that time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: I have noticed the trend that Sinn Féin has now, whereby it grows unhappy when I interrupt its heckling. This will not deter me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and it will not deter the Government from doing two things-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----first, from calling out the fact that Sinn Féin's economic policies and solutions were seen through.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: Where would we be now if we had followed its policies and been entering into a scenario with a Government borrowing while jobs were at risk.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: That is what Sinn Féin offered. It was seen through.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: As I said, despite the best efforts of the Sinn Féin Opposition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----the Government will be honest in how we can help.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: What we will not do is do so-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: -----at the expense of the honesty that is needed at a time when the country and Europe are facing new challenges and new risks.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Sherlock for raising an issue with which I am familiar. In particular I recognise the work that GP Care For All has done, and the person at the heart of it, Amanda Farrelly. I was hoping to meet them myself tomorrow but another Government commitment has got in the way. I am well aware of the importance of the work they do and the value of the service. While I very much...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: We will do our very best on this issue and I thank Deputy Sherlock for raising it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)
Paschal Donohoe: The Government and all of my colleagues on this side of the House absolutely understand the consequences of the uncertainty of the world that we are now in and what that means for households and businesses. We see a world that has become more dangerous, more volatile and full of uncertainty. We on this side of the House are absolutely aware of the concern and anxiety that is causing for...