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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach needs to meet them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Tánaiste. The time is up. We are way over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----to have those children who have been waiting too long looked after in the number of hospitals that are identified in their area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That concludes Leaders' Questions. As I said, we are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We move on to Questions on Policy or Legislation. I ask that the questions take no longer than a minute and that the answers take no longer than a minute.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: Nothing angers and frustrates people more than seeing wastage of public money. Of course, the litany of overspends and wastages under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is endless. We could go back to the electronic voting machines; the €150 million spent on the MetroLink, which still does not a have a timeframe; NAMA giveaways; and projects with seemingly unlimited budgets and zero...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: I would tell the Deputy to travel around the country and look at the new schools that have been opened and built and which he has visited. They were not a waste of money. I do not think we can extrapolate from the bike shed outside that every other piece of infrastructure represents no value for money or represents excessive expenditure. We need balance and perspective in debate all the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: There will be cheques all right.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----to oversee public expenditure and the Deputy knows that. I note from Sinn Féin's budget that its confidence and capacity to spend money has not stopped it from proposing billions of euro more expenditure than anyone else is proposing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, the well-known 14-year-old disability rights campaigner from Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Cara Darmody, held her monster meeting rally outside Leinster House. Many of us attended and there were many parents there expressing their incredible distress and dissatisfaction at the Government's failure to provide their children with timely assessments of needs and proper services and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Bacik.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----and she has been tireless in her campaign. I am asking for commitments on her behalf today.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Bacik. The Tánaiste, please.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I have met with Cara as Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and, indeed, more recently as Tánaiste on the way into Government Buildings. I appreciate the extraordinary commitment she has shown in respect of this issue. It is important to point out the broader picture in terms of children, in particular those with special needs. More than 28,000 children are now being supported in special schools and classes. We have 10,000 more special...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The time is up now, Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and I can discuss that with the Deputy in greater detail. I believe in a school delivery-based model with therapies, and I am progressing that as we speak.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Gary Gannon: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the task force the Taoiseach commissioned for the city of Dublin. It was one of his first acts when he came into power some four or five months ago. That report has been completed and it is sitting on his desk. I read today that it is intended to be brought to the Cabinet in two weeks' time. Contained within that report are a number of recommendations...