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- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. Anois, Sinn Féin. There are three speakers in this slot.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: Deputy Doherty is not here just yet.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave the Deputies share time whatever way they wish.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: We will share the time as we go along. I appreciate that. I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Access to cash and the right of people to use cash is vital. That is the nub of this. People have a right to use cash as well as to access it. Since Covid and even before that, people have spoken of restrictions on the use of cash. People used cards more and more during that...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Jack Chambers: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Department of Finance's retail banking review, published in November 2022, concluded that despite a decline in its usage, cash remains an important element of the payments system and the broader economy and that it is essential that cash remains readily available to customers through ATMs and other means across the country. The...
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Bill opposed?
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is not opposed.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 1.21 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 2.01 p.m. Sitting suspended at 1.21 p.m. and resumed at 2.01 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning Cara Darmody committed to protest every week from now on unless the Government fully and immediately takes action to vindicate the rights of children with additional needs. It needs to give her those commitments and undertake those actions. I promised the parents of a child named Frankie that I would mention him. He is four-and-a-half years old. He has autism. He has global...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: The council has the wherewithal. The criteria are clear if there are issues like that. Clearly young Frankie has real issues and that justifies emergency provision of alternative housing for that child and family. I cannot comprehend how that has not happened. If the Deputy gives me the details, I will see what I can do to pursue that specific case and the broader issue. I have dealt...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Tánaiste will talk to Cara.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Robert Troy: I am raising the issue of Bord na Móna employees and pensioners. A number of years ago, as part of the just transition programme, and in recognition that they received no wage increase for approximately 15 years, shares were issued with an option for employees and pensioners to either sell or retain them. Until this year those shares were receiving dividends. This year Bord na...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy, the time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Robert Troy: The employees and pensioners have been co-operative in the transition of Bord na Móna over the past number of years.