Results 61-80 of 880 for speaker:Marian Harkin in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. I look forward to working with him. I would suggest, if Deputy Flaherty does not mind, while he is looking for a windfall in Longford, to look at his neighbours first, in Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim and so on. I want to raise the issue that the Minister of State has raised before now, which is the need for staged payments for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Minister of State spoke about the importance of building houses in rural areas. It is interesting to look at the housing commencements for last year on a per capita basis. The numbers are much higher for Dublin, of course, but we can look at a county like Kildare. For every 80 people in County Kildare, one house was built. It is important to state that these numbers are on a per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the review of the disabled drivers scheme; and the new criteria being considered line with international best practice. [15225/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: I seek an update on the Minister’s work on finalising the new scheme that is set to replace the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme. We know the senior officials group has had a number of meetings. I believe the Minister submitted a note to that group in mid-January this year. When can we expect the green light? What is the update on what is happening?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: While I do not have recent answers in front of me, it seems the Minister’s remarks here today are quite similar except that there has been a fourth meeting. I accept that the Department of the Taoiseach is meeting, that the Minister’s Department is meeting, and that the Minister sent a note outlining a proposal for a new scheme. Can he give us any information on that? He says...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reviews (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: Deputy Connolly raised a question about the appeals board. In the appeals, is it taking on board the new philosophy that the Minister spoke about in relation to the alternative gateway? 5 o’clock The Minister said he is not taking the lead on this. Does the note from his Department indicate that funding will be in place for this alternative gateway when we look at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes. Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. I am glad to hear that the Minister will keep it under review but we need to hear more than that because for filling stations along the Border, as I said, by 9 October the differential will be 15 cent per litre. They cannot remain open. They cannot sell fuel at that difference in price. It is not only stations along the Border that are affected. If...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: I get the impression the Minister is trying to say this is costing the Exchequer. I submitted a question a week ago and got a response about the amounts of taxes and levies on a litre of petrol and a litre of diesel. Right now he is getting 89 cent per litre on one litre of diesel. That is higher than at any time in the past five years. I am not talking about the percentage; I am talking...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: I wish the Taoiseach well in his new role. I recognise his genuine collaboration and work on the incorporation of St. Angela's into the Atlantic Technological University. I appreciate all of that. However, this morning I laid bare the failure of this Government and those which preceded it to deliver for the north west. Unfortunately, that was only the start of it. My time is short, and...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: I cannot vote for the Minister, Deputy Harris, as Taoiseach, because four years of this Government and 13 years of Fine Gael in government have not delivered for the north west. Earlier, the Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, whom I wish well in his retirement from office, spoke of global mega-trends influencing outcomes. In my view, the only way to counter those trends in the context of balanced...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Marian Harkin: In the first opportunity I have, on a personal level I want to wish Leo Varadkar well as he moves on and to recognise his contribution during Covid-19, his defence of Maurice McCabe and his statesmanlike and extremely competent handling of Brexit. However, we are now in a new political space and Leo Varadkar himself has opened that door. I am calling for a general election for the first...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Deputy can speak to the Minister of State privately.

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which takes an overarching view on the absolute need to provide greater supports to people with disabilities and carers. It is also very interesting and timely to see that today, IBEC issued a detailed report entitled Better Care Better Business. Many of the recommendations in the IBEC report are very similar to those in the Sinn...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: I want to raise the issue of the termination of the special scheme of paid leave for those who suffer from long Covid. In fairness, the payment has been extended on several occasions over the past number of years. Despite the Minister for Health asking for an extension to the end of June this year, the request was denied by the Minister for public expenditure. A number of my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: That is the problem. It is unclear and uncertain and families really do deserve better.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: The frameworks?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: Not for-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: When I spoke on the family referendum in the Dáil a few weeks ago, I agreed that we need to widen the definition of the family in the Constitution to include, for example, one-parent families, non-married families, grandmothers and grandchildren and so forth. Like many others who spoke in the Dáil that day, who were mostly women I might add, while supporting the aspirations of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: I await the Tánaiste's answers. Why did the Government not trust this House to give some legal framework or guidelines to those who wish to assert their family status by means of a durable relationship?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Marian Harkin: My concern is that legal ambiguity around durable relationships, which will be families if the referendum passes, will only arise where there are disputes, between members of a family or between Revenue and a family. Given that we have no legal framework, the only way to resolve those disputes will be to go to court, and perhaps one court after another, up to the Supreme Court. The...