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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: As the Minister said, this is a substantial investment for shovel-ready projects. Ballymote was delighted that it was ready to go, as it were. The Minister knows from correspondence between our offices that I have been pushing for this, as I know some of my colleagues have as well. The committee is ambitious and the project, as I said, is shovel-ready. It has done huge work to get to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I agree. This is a good initiative. It is important, and it is for bigger projects that are shovel-ready. Like Deputy Murnane O'Connor in the context of Tullow Road, I speak strongly in favour of Ballymote. A great thing is that it is supported by many community groups such as Ballymote Community Parks, Ballymote Community Council, Sligo LEADER, Ballymote parks project and Mayo Sligo...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 78. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the 2023 community centre investment fund, particularly in relation to the application from the Ballymote community centre and regional hub. [1666/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (30 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the payment of the pension increase for ESB pensioners, and the rationale for the decision that all pension increases to members of semi-State pension schemes will need consent from both relevant Government Departments, in the case of the ESB, his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure;...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I again raise the matter of the parents of Salem Gharbia, who are in a camp in Gaza with no medication or access to food or clean water. In fact, their lives are in constant danger. This morning, I received a written response to a question I put to the Tánaiste on this issue where he told me that if an Irish citizen, for example, Salem himself, was in Gaza, his dependent parents could...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the progress of getting family members of Irish citizens out of Gaza. [1667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will amend its policy to include first degree relatives on the list of evacuees that is being used to ensure their safe passage out of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2577/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: 149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will amend its policy to include first degree relatives on the list of evacuees that is being used to ensure their safe passage out of Gaza. [2578/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I will be brief. I thank the Chair for letting me in. Apologies for arriving late. I cannot better what has been said. The guests have stated it clearly. The presentations have been reasonable. It is not a question of either-or. It is about what we can do now that will make a difference and that does not preclude what could happen in the future. That is a reasonable way of doing it...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday, I attended what was probably the most harrowing event I have ever attended in Leinster House. Representatives from the Women of Honour group and from the Air Corps spoke about the harms and abuse they have suffered. Many TDs have elaborated on it here today, but some of the stories and the statistics were shocking. They told us they have real concerns that this tribunal of...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: If it is, I would be happy for the Tánaiste to read it to me and I would be a bit more satisfied than I am now. I support the Sinn Féin amendment, in particular the amendment on complaints regarding hazardous chemicals. I support the request to investigate if complaints on the use of hazardous chemicals were deterred on the basis of the lack of personal protective equipment or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Taoiseach is disappointed. I am disappointed that he did not engage. I am disappointed that he did not respond to the real concerns that I hear from people. This is dividing people. I will not be lectured. At the last public meeting that I attended, vile slurs were spoken against migrants and I was the only public representative who called them out. I can tell the Taoiseach that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes, but the Taoiseach did not take his time. He did not feel it was important enough to respond to me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I feel that by his response-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I did not do that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: Do not misquote me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: Three times I said there is no evidence.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I cannot be misquoted by the Taoiseach when I make a reasonable comment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: I am trying to give it to you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: Taoiseach, last November I asked you as Taoiseach, as leader of our country, to lead what I hoped would be an open, honest, factual and respectful debate on immigration. So far this has not happened. In my view, until we treat our citizens as adults and trust them with all the facts - the nice stuff we want them to hear and the hard facts, the tough stuff that is difficult - people will get...