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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Absolutely not. The price of houses is a problem for those seeking to buy or rent houses at affordable prices. There is an issue, and we want prices to come down and to moderate. It is all about supply, though, and I respectfully suggest that the proposals put forward by the Deputy's party would dampen it. We need more supply. This Government has already, in the context of its policies,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Tánaiste. We are over time.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: We want to increase this trend and through the help-to-buy scheme and other supports, we will continue to help people to buy houses at affordable rates.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of Sophie Cole, I ask the Tánaiste to have the assault leave scheme amended urgently. I do not know if the Tánaiste knows Sophie. She is a former SNA who was assaulted and injured in the course of her work in November 2022. She has been left with lifelong injuries and in excruciating pain. The financial implications of this situation have seen Sophie and her husband...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shocking that someone can be left with lifelong injuries-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Tánaiste, to respond, please.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while working for the State and suffer dire financial consequences, as well as the medical impact suffered.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, we are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste look at this issue urgently?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am not familiar with the background to the case and so forth but I will certainly talk to the Minister for Education in relation to the issue the Deputy has raised. There are established industrial relations and conciliation frameworks to try to resolve these issues or progress various schemes. I will, however, certainly discuss this issue with the Minister for Education.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: Last year, a pilot programme was undertaken to study extending the free travel pass scheme to those holders who use the Ballyhack-Passage East car ferry. The pilot study was undertaken over four weeks of the year. Someone from the Department of Social Welfare was there to conduct the study and it was felt it was very worthwhile. Mostly elderly people are using this rural passage of 10 km....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I imagine there are quite a number of complications in expanding such a scheme. I will talk to the Minister for Transport and seek to get the outcome of the evaluation of the pilot scheme, because I presume there was an evaluation. I will talk to the Minister in respect of it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: It was the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, who was involved.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Okay, but it has implications for the Department of Transport too.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Verona Murphy: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Oh, it has.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: To paraphrase the famed song for Kilcash, cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan uisce? Water, and the work of Irish Water, is an appalling problem in Clonmel, south Tipperary and all over the country. I welcome to the Gallery Geraldine and Paddy, one of my office staff, who is on to Irish Water continuously. All our staff are on to Irish Water, but it is like writing to the North Pole. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will talk to the Minister in respect of the situation in Clonmel. More generally, there has been a consistent increase in investment in water infrastructure and wastewater treatment across the country. That investment has been effective in many areas. There is a significant programme ahead that will demand considerable capital investment for years to come-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: I wish to raise the serious challenges that principals in primary and secondary schools are facing with the allocation of the ancillary services grant. Since I raised this issue locally, I have been taken aback by the volume of correspondence I have received from primary and secondary school principals in my constituency but also right around the country. There is a very serious issue...