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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Road Safety Authority, RSA, wrote to the Taoiseach last March asking for increased funding and detailing a number of projects that have stalled due to a shortfall. That has been reported in the media. It seems the authority also informed the Taoiseach that the Government would have to plug the gap or allow the authority to increase the cost of the national car test, NCT, by...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: Not to be pedantic, but the RSA would not have written to me last March because I was not the Taoiseach then. I will certainly follow up on any correspondence the authority may have sent to my predecessor. I have met representatives of the RSA on two occasions since becoming Taoiseach. We have authorised the use of €3 million more of its reserves for those very important...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I will raise an issue I have raised with the Taoiseach previously and which he spoke about earlier, that is, the ongoing failure by the Government to provide adequate accommodation for those who come here seeking refuge and are in the international protection system. I agree with him that it is inhumane and unsustainable to have people camping on the streets or in public parks, but it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: That is a fair and important question. My medium-term plan, or my plan over an even shorter timeframe, is to secure State-owned lands that can provide safe shelter and access to sanitation. I will chair a multiagency meeting on the issue of migration and shelter this evening. I have a view about the tents that I think the Deputy shares. None of us want to see that happen from a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome to the Gallery a group of women from the Inner City Organisations Network. I am raising an issue that will be of relevance to them and many other people and about which I gave notice to the Taoiseach earlier. A charity, GP Care For All, which was established by a Dr. Austin O'Carroll, is in real difficulty because of changes that were made to the taxation of GP income. I am...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for this week's business be agreed to". The Dáil divided: Tá, 67; Níl, 48; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Mattie McGrath.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Frank Feighan, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Question declared carried.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I support that call. I do not believe the Planning and Development Bill should be guillotined tomorrow night. It is a really important Bill. We have seen great concern about it. There are over 800 amendments down on Report Stage. The Minister has put down an amendment based on an amendment Labour put down on Committee Stage that will require a good deal of debate. It is an amendment to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support the call for a guillotine not to be imposed on this very substantial Bill but I want to go back to the issue of carers, which was raised earlier. In reply to Deputy Cairns, the Taoiseach quoted a lot of figures but made no reference to the level of need. Here are some more figures. Some 72% of family carers get no respite at all. Only one in four family carers get the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I also call for there to be no guillotine on the Planning and Development Bill. It is obviously extremely important as regards how our planning process will work in the years ahead. There were weeks of Committee Stage debate but that will now all be condensed into eight hours or so with a guillotine on Report Stage. It is clear that we need to give this Bill as long as it needs for debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too oppose this proposal, as I did at the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday week. This is very substantial legislation that will have significant ramifications from all angles. Months were spent on the Bill on Committee Stage, where there were hours and hours of debate. A great many amendments, including amendments from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I echo and support the calls for more time to be given for the Planning and Development Bill because it is vitally important. For legislation that will be of such importance right across the country to be guillotined like this is wrong.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: In case people at home will think this has been in any way rushed, this Bill had 120 hours of debate on Committee Stage. It also went through pre-legislative scrutiny. When Deputy Peter Burke was the Minister of State with responsibility for planning, many meetings were held with various stakeholders. At some point, we need to get on and pass a law that is going to reform our planning...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Is our job just to pass laws or to debate them?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: We need to roll up the sleeves and get the job done. We are doing four and a half hours today and eight hours tomorrow. People need homes. We need our planning system to be reformed. This Government is going to actually make progress on housing, while some in the Opposition are trying to obstruct that progress.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach address the question on carers?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: On carers, I am happy for that to be discussed at the Business Committee. There is no time this week for the reasons we have just outlined.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What about next week then?