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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Deputies: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy McDonald.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise again the issue of safety in Dublin city centre. Sadly, today, we have had another incident on Parnell Square where children have been left frightened and traumatised. People who live in the inner city of Dublin and its communities are sick and tired of the ongoing antisocial behaviour and the sense of threat and dread, sick and tired of the lack of support and services,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I will finish. In the month after 7 October, the General Secretary of the United Nations told us that Gaza was becoming a graveyard for children and that the nightmare in Gaza was more than a humanitarian crisis; it was a crisis of humanity. Yesterday, he affirmed that there was no safe place in Gaza, demanding that the horror must stop. I apologise for going over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of Palestine and the horrific humanitarian catastrophe that continues to unfold. I acknowledge that her welcome for the fact that this is a proud day for Ireland in recognising the State of Palestine. I also recognise that this is very much something on which the people have led. I very much hear that as I go around the country as I meet people....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: That is better than I was expecting; I thank the Taoiseach for the response. I also thank him for agreeing to meet the physicians. The feasibility study is a very positive development. Reducing the number of fatalities on our roads would be a sufficient reason for this system but I see my constituency colleague the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon across the Chamber and am minded that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I am conscious that I am sitting beside a colleague and a friend, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, who knows all too well how that life-saving service made a massive difference to her own daughter, Tara’s life. This is a service that everyone in Ireland really values. It does absolutely incredible work. We live in a country that is small in geographic size but is in someway vast in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Fillfidh mé ar cheist na Palaistíne. Cuirim fáilte roimh chinneadh an Rialtais aitheantas a thabhairt don Stát mar stát neamhspleách. Is céim chun cinn é sin ach tá gá le briathra eile agus le réimse leathan gníomhartha a dhéanamh anois chun beart a dhéanamh de réir ár mbriathar. I am returning to Palestine....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: I raise the issue of road safety, especially in advance of the bank holiday weekend. Fatality statistics are trending in the wrong direction again, which is unfortunate and sad. At the last count, there were already 79 fatalities this year, which is ten more than the same period last year. We know what the reasons are for these things. We know it is driver behaviour, speeding, driving...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Berry for raising this important issue. I absolutely will take that meeting. We would benefit greatly from that expertise and listening to those individuals. I am happy to do that. I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of road safety as we face into another bank holiday weekend. Everyone needs to be conscious of what are called the killer behaviours that can take...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: The rhetoric is great-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: It is not rhetoric.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: I am blue in the face acknowledging it but what we are asking for is action that is proportionate. The Taoiseach is talking about wanting the EU to use every lever available to it and that is precisely what I am asking him to do. There actions we can take as a sovereign State, while the EU has not come round to the very obvious breach of the human rights clauses in the EU-Israel trade...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I am not calling the EU out. We are part of the EU. We joined it, are members of it and are around the table. What I am doing every single day with colleagues across Government, including the Tánaiste, is working at a European level to help bring about the actions that need to happen. Europe has not covered itself in glory in relation to this humanitarian catastrophe. I am very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: It is entirely possible, although it might be a new one on Deputy McDonald, to be able to report progress in an area of societal challenge and still wish to do more in that area. I travel around the country, as I am sure does the Deputy, most of the time anyway. As she travels around the country, I am sure she sees plenty of examples of new homes being built. I am sure she knocks on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: There are 4,000 children homeless.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Simon Harris: We still wish to do more. Fewer than 1% of residential property transactions saw the higher rate of stamp duty. I want to see more. I want to see it reviewed. The Government intends to review it in the context of the budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: Every week I think we have witnessed the limits of human cruelty and depravity when it comes to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Each week, I am proven wrong. Israel's missile strike on Sunday evening on a tented refugee camp in Rafah was not just a despicable human rights violation; it was depraved and inhumane. On Sunday night, displaced men, women and children cowering in tents were...