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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Farrell for raising this issue. I had a brief word with the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, on this earlier today. My understanding is that it is still planned to publish that legislation quite shortly. Obviously the timeline for passing it will depend on all of us in this House. In parallel to that we are reviewing the timeline for those elections and I will revert to...

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

Carol Nolan: The Department of Education is placing many schools in a very difficult position of having to choose whether to fund caretaking services or secretarial services. I have been contacted by a number of schools in my constituency. They have expressed concern and were shocked over the fact the ancillary services grant would not cover the caretaking costs for this year. The CPSMA has carried out...

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

Simon Harris: I have been in the service in Summerhill and I know Dr. Austin O'Carroll and the very good work he does. I thank Deputy Shortall for contacting my office on this. I undertake to speak today to the relevant Ministers and I am happy to come back to Deputy Shortall.

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Taoiseach.

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

Paul Murphy: Last week the UN Secretary General called for a ban on fossil fuel advertising similar to the ban on tobacco advertising. António Guterres asked every country in the world to bring in this ban. He called fossil fuel companies the godfathers of climate chaos who rake in record profits while the most vulnerable are being left stranded. These fossil fuel companies are destroying our...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Murphy. We are clearly on the side of saving the planet. We are clearly on the side of reducing our emissions by 51% by 2030. We have a very ambitious climate action plan on this and a lot of work to do. We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable energies. I will ask the Minister for the environment to share a view on the comments of the...

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

Seán Canney: Earlier we had a debate about carers and carer's allowance and how carers need to be treated better. We have a situation whereby somebody applying for carer's allowance cannot work more than 18 hours a week. People are participating on schemes which require them to work 19.5 hours, for instance, the rural social scheme which is a social activation scheme, not a job activation scheme. It is...

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

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Canney. We will certainly give this consideration. I note the motion he brought forward to the House recently on a range of issues to do with carers. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, indicated at the time her intention to look at a number of these issues and the means testing issue in advance of the budget. We will factor this into our budget considerations and engage with...

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

Mattie McGrath: I know there is a problem in Dublin with the canals and the tents and everything else. The people of Ireland and the people of Tipperary are very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees but now we have a situation whereby they are being moved out of places such as Rathcabbin and Borrisokane, which was a model for everyone to look at. There is Dundrum House Hotel, what happened in Roscrea and the...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I understand the Road Safety Authority, RSA, wrote to the Taoiseach last March asking for increased funding and detailing a number of projects that have stalled due to a shortfall. That has been reported in the media. It seems the authority also informed the Taoiseach that the Government would have to plug the gap or allow the authority to increase the cost of the national car test, NCT, by...

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

Simon Harris: Not to be pedantic, but the RSA would not have written to me last March because I was not the Taoiseach then. I will certainly follow up on any correspondence the authority may have sent to my predecessor. I have met representatives of the RSA on two occasions since becoming Taoiseach. We have authorised the use of €3 million more of its reserves for those very important...

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

Ivana Bacik: I will raise an issue I have raised with the Taoiseach previously and which he spoke about earlier, that is, the ongoing failure by the Government to provide adequate accommodation for those who come here seeking refuge and are in the international protection system. I agree with him that it is inhumane and unsustainable to have people camping on the streets or in public parks, but it is...

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

Simon Harris: That is a fair and important question. My medium-term plan, or my plan over an even shorter timeframe, is to secure State-owned lands that can provide safe shelter and access to sanitation. I will chair a multiagency meeting on the issue of migration and shelter this evening. I have a view about the tents that I think the Deputy shares. None of us want to see that happen from a...

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

Róisín Shortall: I welcome to the Gallery a group of women from the Inner City Organisations Network. I am raising an issue that will be of relevance to them and many other people and about which I gave notice to the Taoiseach earlier. A charity, GP Care For All, which was established by a Dr. Austin O'Carroll, is in real difficulty because of changes that were made to the taxation of GP income. I am...

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for this week's business be agreed to". The Dáil divided: Tá, 67; Níl, 48; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Mattie McGrath.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Frank Feighan, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Question declared carried.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I support that call. I do not believe the Planning and Development Bill should be guillotined tomorrow night. It is a really important Bill. We have seen great concern about it. There are over 800 amendments down on Report Stage. The Minister has put down an amendment based on an amendment Labour put down on Committee Stage that will require a good deal of debate. It is an amendment to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support the call for a guillotine not to be imposed on this very substantial Bill but I want to go back to the issue of carers, which was raised earlier. In reply to Deputy Cairns, the Taoiseach quoted a lot of figures but made no reference to the level of need. Here are some more figures. Some 72% of family carers get no respite at all. Only one in four family carers get the...