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Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Public dental services have almost collapsed under this Government's watch. There are two main issues here. Primary school children are not getting vital checks in second, fourth and sixth class. Nearly half of children are not getting their checks. This was around 100,000 children last year and 100,000 children the year before that. Up to one year ago, more than 12,000 children had been...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Coverage today by RTÉ of leaked details of the report of the Housing Commission laid bare the absolute disaster that is this Government's housing policy and the Minister himself. The report was compiled by leading experts and practitioners in the State and in it they are clearing saying the plan has failed. Calling for a "radical strategic reset" of housing policy is another way of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: I wish to raise the issue of Garda numbers in Drogheda, Ireland's largest town. It was promised a special focus and increased and bolstered Garda resources following the brutal feud that took place there. There was nothing that the Government was not promising in the aftermath of it. However, an internal Garda submission late last year outlined that regular uniformed policing numbers had...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Is it the case that the Government has no intention of bolstering Garda resources in Drogheda as it said it would?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Is it just another broken promise conning people?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Which is it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: We are down 21 gardaí in Drogheda.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: The question was whether the Government has broken its promise.

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: The increase in the number of roads deaths in the last year has been shocking. Every life lost on the roads is a major tragedy. The last few months in particular have been totally devastating. Sixty-three people have died on our roads this year. These are 63 families left to grieve and lives ruined by loss, not to mention those who suffer serious injuries, sometimes life-changing. There...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: As we mark International Women's Day this week, I want to use my time to speak about the women in Gaza, who are living in hell on earth. Their conditions are indescribable. It is like nothing we have seen before in our lifetime. Five months in and the people of Gaza are starving. Israel has deliberately blocked the delivery of aid into Gaza. What we are now witnessing is an Israeli-made...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Since the Minister's bizarre decision on Thursday to appear on "Prime Time", her actions and the resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh have dominated the news cycle. It is clear the Minister should not have done that interview. Yesterday, at the media committee, she admitted she had been aware the then chair was threatening to resign, yet she went ahead with that interview. In fact,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I raise the issue of the problems caused by the Government's policy of privatising immigration and impact it has on communities, services and people seeking international protection. Not once were public representatives, the TDs, in Drogheda contacted in advance of that contract being signed to ask for our opinions or how it would impact our town. It was only after the contract was signed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I presume he is not just stringing people in Drogheda along.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given that she has previously expressed a preference for direct Exchequer funding to replace the television licence, if she can provide an update on any correspondence, communications or meetings she has had with her Government colleagues in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6921/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 1. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the two reports recently commissioned and published at RTÉ on Toy Show The Musical and the voluntary exit programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7245/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I ask the Minister for her views on the two reports recently commissioned and published by RTÉ on Toy Show The Musicaland the voluntary exit programme and if she will make a statement.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: First, I have to say that again I submitted a question to the Minister around bogus self-employment at RTÉ and once again, it was rejected. I am running out of ways to word the question in the hope that the Minister will actually answer it. I see that she met Mr. Bakhurst in the last couple of weeks and she also met the unions, which would suggest that it is something that comes under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yesterday, the director of HR who was responsible for putting through that exit package, which came in at a cost of just under €500,000 to the taxpayers, appeared at the committee. The director of HR put through the procedure with that exit package, knowing that it did not meet the criteria and knowing full well it broke the rules and was not compliant with the scheme. That person...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: It is nearly ten years since the public service broadcasting charge was due to be introduced. Since then, we have had committees, commissions and all sorts of research, time and money invested into this question. Successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments have not had the political courage to make a call on this. In 2020, the Government again handed over the job to the Future of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: The saga of the driving test centre in Drogheda has been going on for nearly six years. At this stage, it is frankly ridiculous. I raised the matter with the Taoiseach last year. The Road Safety Authority, RSA, has been promising a centre for years. Fourteen sites were identified. The RSA rejected some without even giving a reason and rejected others on the basis that there was too much...