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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So, he is not doing it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please. The Taoiseach, without interruption.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We are keeping it under review and will make those decisions and continue to keep it under review. However, I am glad the Deputy has also referenced the issue of child poverty today. Child poverty is a really important issue, and we need to do more, but let us look at our record versus Sinn Féin's. In the last budget we extended child benefit, benefitting 60,000 more children. Sinn...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We put €45 million more into hot school meals, they put a paltry €15 million in. We increased the domiciliary care allowance. Sinn Féin did not think those parents deserved any more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: We did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We provided a lump sum payment for families on qualified child payment. Sinn Féin did not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I can feel another fact check coming on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We increased the income threshold for working families, and Sinn Féin did not do that either. In Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin is now leading the government longer than I am leading this one, it does not yet have a strategy to tackle child poverty. The Deputy can read what the Northern Ireland Audit Office has said.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Taoiseach, time is up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: When is the Sinn Féin First Minister going to deliver a child poverty strategy in Northern Ireland?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: On behalf of the Labour Party, I call Deputy Ó Ríordáin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Niall Collins: You are all very quiet over there.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was privileged on Monday to visit the SAOL Hub-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: Another fact check coming.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can we have a little order please?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to talk about disabilities-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
David Cullinane: More lies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----if people would give me the opportunity. On Monday, with our local Labour representative Patrick Dempsey, I was privileged to visit the SAOL Hub in Ballyfermot Community Civic Centre run by Stewarts Care. We heard first-hand the challenges facing young adults with disabilities - the under-resourcing and lack of opportunities. As the Taoiseach knows, disabled people are at a much...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. I acknowledge the work of SAOL, and people are happy to engage with that organisation. There are a couple of issues, and I would like to address each of them. On comprehensive employment and the need to do more for people with disability to access the workforce, I acknowledge that it was a former colleague of the Deputy's, Fergus...