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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: A general election will focus the minds. If a clear left alternative is on offer and there is a chance to end the rule of 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which are responsible for the housing crisis, the health crisis, the lack of action on the cost of living, and the disgraceful situation facing families with kids with additional needs, I think many people will take that chance...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: Let us allow people to have a choice in the next election. I think if we inspire people with the chance for an alternative to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, many people will take that choice.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: One choice has been ruled out anyway.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not really sure where to start there. There will be a general election in due course. I am really looking forward to it because there will definitely be alternative political views on offer. I am not sure who is in this left coalition or whether Sinn Féin is in it. Maybe its members are not sure themselves either, but they will work it out after they have the review. Every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I congratulate Deputy Cairns on the election of the councillors from her party. I wish everybody who was elected well. Lots of people voted for my party as well, and for my coalition party colleagues in Fianna Fáil and the Green Party. Her view of how people view the political situation is not always in line with what the people actually decided to do at the ballot box on Friday....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: Respectfully, I said people did not buy the rhetoric on carers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: In your view.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: What the Taoiseach just said is a really good example of how different the rhetoric is versus the reality of what people experience. The problem with what he is saying is that people have heard it all before. Carers have heard the same promises, not just from him but from his predecessor and the taoisigh before them. Instead of things getting better, they are getting worse. Already...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I did not say we are doing a report. We do not need any more reports. I said that between now and budget day, we will review the means test. When I talk to carers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: You mentioned a report on respite.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I referred to the respite investment plan. There are two different issues involved. Let us take them sequentially. In regard to the means test, when I go around the country, there are too many people who find it a bit mean. We want to make the means test more generous and understanding in order that more carers can benefit. That is why this week - Deputy Cairns can shake her head all...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it a cut or not a cut?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: -----because those are the schools attended by the children with the most complex needs. They rely on the provision of the service.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There has been a cut in the grant.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy should not come in here with her one setting of performative outrage. Let us actually engage on the substance of the issue, namely the fact that more schools are availing of the programme and that a Minister of State with responsibility for special educational needs is, for the first time ever, sitting at the Cabinet table.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
John Brady: It is the second one.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: We also have a Cabinet sub-committee to break down silos and end bureaucracy. That is what people want. They do not just wan us to define the problems; they want us to come up with solutions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Such arrogance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I would have thought Deputy McDonald had learnt that this weekend.