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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: All those amendments are being discussed together. Amendment No. 1 to the Minister's amendment has been moved.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is what I will speak to now very briefly.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Ó Broin has seven minutes.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate that but we have quite a lot of amendments to go through so you will be happy to know, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, that I am not going to always take the seven minutes when it is not required. First, I thank the Minister for the explanation on the amendments he got through. We might get to some of the others. In the interests of time, because we have a lot of amendments to go...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Briefly, before I speak to amendment No. 1, it is important to set out clearly how we got to this stage, because there is a narrative out there that in some way this Bill is being rushed through. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Chair of the Oireachtas housing committee, I want to state that we spent probably two and a half years working on this Bill. I think we have been...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Nolan for raising this issue. I agree with her that school caretakers and secretaries are crucial parts of school communities. We all see this as we travel around the country and in schools in our own communities. I will certainly talk to the Minister for Education about the ancillary services grant and the impact the Deputy believes this is having on schools in her...

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

Willie O'Dea: Last week in Limerick, I attended the sad and tragic funeral of Nicole Morey, one of my constituents, whose family members are very well known to me. She was killed by one of her family dogs on the day after her 23rd birthday. The Taoiseach's colleague, the Tánaiste, is on record as saying that he is in favour of blanket ban on all 11 types of dogs on the State's restricted list. Does...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy O'Dea for raising this very important matter. I begin by extending my sympathies to the family of Nicole Morey. I think the whole country extends its sympathies to that family and community at this horrific time. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, did update the Cabinet on this matter today. The Deputy is correct that she has asked the task force looking at these issues in...

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

Holly Cairns: I would not usually bring such a local and specific issue to the notice of the Taoiseach, but he is not the first Taoiseach I have brought this matter to the attention of because it has been going on for so long and is so desperate. A village in my constituency, Shannon Vale, a gorgeous village next to Clonakilty, has a green space in its centre. It is the heart of the village, where...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for raising this issue on behalf of the community of Shannon Vale. It sounds like an horrific situation for that community for this to have been going on for so long. What might be of use, and I am happy to do this if it is, would be for me to ask that Uisce Éireann and others would convene a meeting of Oireachtas Members for the constituency to see if we can-----

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

Holly Cairns: We have done that many times.

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

Simon Harris: I will speak to the chief executive of Uisce Éireann, see where the situation is at and then come back to Deputy Cairns. If getting people in a room together might be of use to the Deputy, I am happy to do that.

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

Holly Cairns: I thank the Taoiseach.

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

Gino Kenny: I come back to the issue of the Family Carers Ireland survey. It was a very important survey of respite care in Ireland. The survey shows this is arbitrary and inconsistent in respect of when families need this respite care. It is so important that all parties get respite care. Mention is also made of the means testing of carers. Again, I think this is quite arbitrary and needs major...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Kenny for raising this issue. I intend to meet with Family Carers Ireland this month. We intend to review the means tests for supports for carers. It is the Government's view that they need to change and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, wants to examine this issue in the context of the budget. I do meet too many carers who are not benefiting from or are locked out of being...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are finished again. Congratulations and thanks to all involved.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (11 Jun 2024)

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (11 Jun 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, or in the Order of the Dáil of 8th May, 2024, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Justice shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (11 Jun 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Consideration of Estimates by Committee: Motion (11 Jun 2024)