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- 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.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputies should please not interrupt. I call Deputy Cairns.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I thought Deputy McDonald would be trying humility today.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Hubris and arrogance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can we stop the heckling please? Can we hear Deputy Holly Cairns, without interruption?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: Counts are still taking place, so the elections are not quite over. One thing that was made clear to me on the doors is that people out there are not interested in the Punch and Judy show that often takes place in this House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: They are not interested in petty, political one-upmanship or politics that values sound bites over substance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Holly Cairns: The people who voted for candidates who they met at their doors and who they put their trust in want representatives who will work hard, who are clear in what they can deliver and who can offer credible solutions to the many problems we face. We all know what those problems are, namely the housing disaster, the healthcare crisis, the climate emergency and threadbare disability services. ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.