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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Gary Gannon: We were not offered the chance.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Everybody has been offered the opportunity to engage with this. It is very important that the community are empowered through the partnerships to identify what they need. Many of these actions have been implemented, many have been supported with funding and many are seed projects that will then lead on to something more substantial. However, it is very important that as the initial three...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am delighted to have the opportunity to directly ask the Minister about the domestic violence strategy following on from the Women's Aid report yesterday. Only two weeks ago, a report that was commissioned through the work of Councillor Hazel de Nortúin in Cherry Orchard was published on the domestic violence strategy for that area. The place was packed and there was a huge amount of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I too read the report from Cherry Orchard, which was harrowing. The report yesterday from Women's Aid shows how much of an epidemic this is. It should be something that we all treat as an emergency. What is very welcome from the figures yesterday is that more women are coming forward and they feel they can come forward. Because of the discussions we have had in this House and the emphasis...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Noel Grealish: The processing of grant of probate is currently taking 17 to 20 weeks on average. I have been contacted on a regular basis, as I am sure many Members of the House have been, by constituents frustrated by the delays, especially when they need to sell a property or asset and the sale is being held up. Earlier this year, the property agent Lisney said that continuing delays in the Probate...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I appreciate the frustration. I have had many people come to me, particularly about the long delays and the implications for them personally, but also in terms of the overall market. The best way we can address this is by moving towards a digitalised system. We are not there yet. Work is under way through my Department, working with the Courts Service and with significant investment...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On a day when Áine Donnelly, a former garda, and her former Garda colleagues are visiting the Dáil, many of them of the rank of inspector or superintendent, I wish to speak on behalf of the gardaí of Clonmel in south Tipperary. The Garda station in Clonmel is Dickensian, with no sign of it going to tender. We also have the worst numbers ever in Clonmel. Carrick-on-Suir has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Over recent years, I have lost count of the number of times I have heard of people going to Newry in the North or even abroad for dental treatment due to the cost and lack of availability of dental services in my constituency of Louth and east Meath. The lack of dental services is having a detrimental effect on children. For example, I spoke to a constituent last week about the orthodontic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Like him, I appreciate the frustration that families and, in particular, parents feel at not being able to access services in a timely way. We all see that in our constituencies when these queries are raised with us. This is an area that has received significant investment in recent years, with more than €200 million allocated every year...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: It is not working. The cost and availability of dental services need to be tackled, as does the orthodontic situation in Dundalk. Going private is not an option, as orthodontists are too busy or not taking referrals. Medical cards are being refused by regular practices. People are waiting extraordinary amounts of time for essential medical treatment. Children are 15 or 16 years of age...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: We are committed to improving services overall. On top of the €200 million budget for public oral health, there has been additional funding of €15 million for the Smile agus Sláinte policy and €17 million in one-off funding to improve waiting lists for orthodontic services. There was €10 million in 2023 to support a decrease in the number of patients waiting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are way over time, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Is there anything the Minister can say today that will lead us to believe that it will actually be any different? I mean actions rather than promises, meetings and reports.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can assure the Deputy and Cara, and many young people like her, that we are acting. I think that is clear from the fact that €780 million has been provided in additional funding for those with special and additional needs over the past four years of this specific Government. I can assure the Deputy that additional funding has been allocated to make sure those waiting lists are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Around 15,000 young people in this country are legally paid less than the minimum wage. They are discriminated against for no reason other than their age. Some of those who represent those workers in Mandate are in the Gallery now. There will be a protest by those affected at 1 p.m. outside the Dáil. We have a national minimum wage of €12.70 an hour. It is an amount that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: What I can say is that this is a Government that supports workers and also supports enterprise because without the businesses to create these jobs, where would we be? This Government understands that in order to create wealth and jobs for young people and everybody else we need to make sure our businesses are supported as well. We have supported workers by increasing sick pay. We have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am quite struck by the Minister’s answer. I was asking about 17-year-olds getting paid €8.89 an hour - poverty wages - and she spent probably three quarters of her answer talking about all the supports for businesses that Fine Gael is going to provide. There is legalised super-exploitation of young workers taking place right now. The Government has a commission report which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I do not think we can be any clearer that without employers we do not have employees. I outlined the supports we are putting in place for employers. It is important we support them. It is also important that we support employees too. That is why we have introduced sick pay and remote working for those who can engage in it. That is why we have introduced domestic violence leave,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am not sure the Government can be any clearer in its approach here. The only way this can be resolved is by parties coming around the table together. The Government cannot force either party to come around the table. What it can do is stress, outline and highlight very clearly the negative implications that this will have for individuals and business throughout this country and also for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Today, 13-year-old Cara Darmody will hold a protest outside the Dáil again. Cara is protesting for improved autism services and for the Government to live up to its promises to disabled people and their families. She has first-hand experience of the difficulties endured by people with disabilities. Her two younger brothers, Neil and John, are autistic and she and her family have had...