Results 601-620 of 1,033,134 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Paul Kehoe)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputies, resume your seats.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: We would have expected better from you than that now, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: You were offending at that point.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Collins: Do not bother coming down to west Cork.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not need your permission.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: You come up here and go mocking people like that. That is wrong. That is mocking, and you are wrong, Taoiseach. You are 62 days in the job and you should know a lot more than that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Why are ye upset, lads?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I acknowledge the Labour Party's success in the European elections and congratulate Deputy Bacik's colleague Deputy Ó Ríordáin on his election to the European Parliament. I believe he is still Deputy Ó Ríordáin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Ivana Bacik: He is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I know Deputy Bacik would not wish to misrepresent our position. There will be no rowing back on workers' rights. There is nothing I have said, nothing the Government has done and nothing the Government has indicated that suggests I am rowing back. The question, and it is a legitimate question, is on the pace at which costs come at small businesses. This is why, prior to my election as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Ivana Bacik: A September or October budget?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: When would you like it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Seán Canney: I want to raise the issue of affordable housing schemes. Galway County Council is finding it very difficult to put schemes in place in towns such as Tuam, which is the largest county town, Ballinasloe, Loughrea, Gort or Athenry. This is on the basis that the figures do not stack up. Affordability schemes will be in Claregalway, Oranmore and Galway city. The structure by which the scheme...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Canney for raising these matters. The Government wants to remove any barrier that exists to the development of housing and housing schemes, such as the Deputy has indicated. I am concerned when I hear Deputy Canney highlighting these important issues being perceived as barriers in his community. I am very eager to work with him and to work through the structures in Galway to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Seán Canney: I thank the Taoiseach and I acknowledge that Clarinbridge and Craughwell have been given an allocation to put in wastewater treatment plants and not before time. The reality is there is a list of 30 more similar centres in Galway. When the Minister, Deputy O'Brien first announced the funding call it was three years ago. It was only in December that an announcement was made as to where the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: There is a lot of hand hygiene and a lot of people washing their hands here. Let me assure the Deputy we will not wash our hands of our responsibility to deliver for the people of Galway in terms of housing supply. I am pleased with the progress we are making on social housing, as Deputy Canney has acknowledged. I also acknowledge that we need to do more on this. We continue to be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I again thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I assure her that the words "dismissive" or "dismissing" could never be attached to me or this Government when it comes to this issue. It is an issue on which everybody in this House and everybody in Ireland wants to make more progress. There has been a significant increase in mental health presentations, particularly among younger people,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the Low Pay Commission recommended the abolition of sub-minimum wages for workers under the age of 20. I cannot say that any of us were surprised by the recommendation because maintaining a discriminatory system for young people could never have stood up to scrutiny when evaluated on the evidence. We all know that young workers have rent to pay and other living expenses. They...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. The Government welcomes yesterday's publication of the report of the Low Pay Commission. The Government, and specifically the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, will now give it consideration. He will carry out an economic impact assessment and will then make recommendations to Cabinet, if that is the appropriate thing to do. We...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)
Ivana Bacik: As the Taoiseach knows, we have always acknowledged any steps forward on workers' rights. We are, however, concerned to guard against any rowing back of workers' rights. As the Taoiseach acknowledged, I have engaged extensively with small businesses in my own constituency and elsewhere. I am conscious that the Low Pay Commission is statutorily obliged to have regard to the impact of its...