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Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister of State for his comments. I thank Deputies Ahern and Donnelly for their support in this matter. I have listened to what the Minister of State said. I note what he said about the Private Members' Bill creating unnecessary duplication of effort and potential discrepancies. He said these matters were best progressed at the EU level. I disagree with him. I do not think...

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Question put.

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 21 May 2025.

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.34 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 20 Bealtaine 2025. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.34 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May 2025.

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I appreciate the need for progressing legislation in this area. I thank the speakers who have contributed. We are all at one in terms of its importance and we all share the same objective here. There is a significant recognition of that, particularly on planned obsolesce which all the Deputies have identified, and it is something we need to address. Developments at EU level are already...

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I commend Deputies Pa Daly and Quinlivan on bringing forward this really excellent Bill. The Labour Party is glad to give it our support. We have a long history of advocating for better waste management and advocating for measures to reduce waste. Indeed, it is more than 20 years since we published our Waste Matters policy document in 2005, an alternative strategy on waste management to...

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Paul Donnelly: I thank Deputies Daly and Quinlivan for tabling this Bill. It is important legislation and something that will help many people across this State who are faced with huge bills they do not necessarily need to face. It is a lot of anecdotal evidence but we all have personal experience of when the washing machine or something else breaks in the house and the repair person says that, because...

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I, too, thank the Deputies for the imaginative legislation they have tabled. The Government recognises the importance of progressing legislation in respect of the right to repair and information on the repairability of certain products. The Deputies have outlined many examples I am well familiar with, in the sense that, when I started out in life, white goods lasted a greater length of time...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Arts Policy (15 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for that comprehensive response. Notwithstanding all of the detail provided, the question still remains as to whether artists can have any assurance that the payments they receive will end in August or in December, given that the scheme is fully funded to the end of the year. When the review is complete and a decision is made, it will take time to revise...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Arts Policy (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister has advised me that he will meet shortly with the National Campaign For the Arts, NCFA, to hear its views on the scheme in detail. Department officials met the NCFA on 25 April last. It is important to note that the pilot is a research programme and that no decision has been taken as to the continuation of the basic income for the arts. The research evaluating the impact of...

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Information on Repairability of Certain Products Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 May 2025)

Pa Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Title to the Bill states that it is: "An Act to provide that information relating to the repairability of certain products be made available and to provide for related matters." Ba mhaith liom ar dtús mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le hOifig na gComhairleoirí Dlí Parlaiminte as an obair a rinne siad ag ullmhú an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I have known the Deputy for a long time. I am aware of the sincerity she brings to the issue. This is not the usual banter that goes on in here. I will meet the woman in question with the Deputy at a time to be decided next week, if we can. I will talk to the officials in the Department to see if a signal can be sent that these are exceptional circumstances. The reply provided to me...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Arts Policy (15 May 2025)

Arts Policy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Arts Policy (15 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: This matter relates to the basic income for those involved in the arts. This is a ground-breaking scheme that threw a lifeline to 2,000 artists in 2022. I wish to get assurances from the Minister of State as to what will happen in August when the three-year lifetime of the scheme expires. Many artists are anxious about what is likely to happen. A review is under way, which is absolutely...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Arts Policy (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I know the Deputy has a long-term interest in this area. She has been extremely supportive of the scheme. The basic income for the arts pilot research scheme was the number one recommendation by the arts and culture recovery task force during the Covid-19 pandemic. The task force unanimously agreed that a basic income for artists was the best way to help the to sector recover after the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Local Authorities

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I will illustrate the point I wish to make to the Minister of State by using an example from my constituency. I will talk to him about a lady who I will call her Janet because I do not want to say her name. In 2010, Janet joined the Dublin City Council housing list. She was eligible for social housing at that stage. I will not get all political about the reason we have a housing crisis....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I can tell that she has a very personal interest in this, and that speaks to the person she is. I thank her for tabling the matter. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for housing. The response to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a cross-departmental and multi-agency issue, with overall policy co-ordinated by the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He referred to zero tolerance, but it does not look like zero tolerance because this man can live wherever he bloody well likes and Janet is stuck. I wish the Minister of State could meet this woman because all she has done is work hard. Through no fault of her own, she finds herself in a situation where she could be waiting 30 years to get...