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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the major criticisms in the Housing Commission's damning report relates to Government waste of money. The report states: "Ireland has, by comparison with our European partners, one of the highest levels of public expenditure for housing, yet one of the poorest outcomes." Why is that the case? It is because the Government decided to pass the State's responsibility for housing people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: There are a couple of different aspects here, namely the Housing Commission report, to which the Deputy referred, and rental supports. Today, the Government will publish the Housing Commission report. In an effort to be helpful to the House and to inform debate on this, the Minister will also publish alongside it an initial assessment of where we are at with a number of the actions. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

(Interruptions).

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: Deputy Ó Broin should be very careful telling me what he does not do because I have the information here. Just to be clear on this, Sinn Féin has asked us to spend more than €10 billion on these supports. If you want to know why, it is because in an emergency while ramping up housing supply, we have to do something in the here and now. You say landlords; I say renters....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point is that the Housing Commission report is damning. It is not neutral in its assessment of the Government's performance; it is damning and states very clearly the Government's failures. An important failing it identifies is the fact that the Government has turned what should be a temporary, short-term support into a permanent feature in the lives of many people. The Taoiseach did...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I had hoped that the Minister would come in today and outline a clear plan to reform of public dentistry. However, all we got was talk. The scripts that were read out by the two Ministers of State were an absolute disgrace. The Ministers of State are either delusional or blatantly disingenuous. They displayed a complete disconnect from...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I wish to make a clarification. A number of speakers stated that the recruitment embargo affected the recruitment of dentists. It does not affect the recruitment of dentists.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It affects consultants.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputies across the House for their contributions to this debate. As the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, has noted, an additional €15 million in core funding since 2019 and 2020 and a further additional €17 million in once-off funding has been supporting the ongoing work to reduce waiting lists and to address access to services through policy implementation. I...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will look at this from a different vantage than the previous speaker. When I was walking across the city this morning, I listened to the Ombudsman for Children responding to the child poverty report, which, once again, highlights that the level of child poverty in this State is increasing. Then, I came in here to talk about this motion. I thank Deputy Shortall for bringing it forward....

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion on the totally unacceptable lack of dentistry services in Ireland. The motion lays bare the damning statistics, which I will not repeat. They are stark. If there was only one recommendation I would ask the Government to put in place from this motion, it would be to commit to providing the required funding in budget...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to this motion regarding dentistry services and thank the Social Democrats for bringing the motion forward. I fully support this motion and its calls for the Government to expand the capacity of public dental services for children and special care patients, reform the dental treatment service scheme, publish the dentists Bill and address the funding...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Social Democrats for using their Private Members' time this week to discuss the serious failings in respect of dentistry services. The motion acknowledges that access to dental care has been in crisis. That is especially true in counties like my constituency of Clare. Urgent action was required by Government to address the serious failings. Instead, we got gestures and token...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)

Michael Ring: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made no amendment thereto.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Debate resumed on the following motion: - (Deputy Róisín Shortall)

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I support the motion and recognise it is very well presented and timely. It is well overdue. It is an excellent motion and it reflects the real situation affecting so many hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that dental services are not available to them is truly shocking. It is not the first motion of its kind and it will probably not be the last. The motion calls for legislation...