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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

James O'Connor: First and foremost, from one baby of the House to another, I congratulate the Taoiseach on his appointment. I wish him well. He is the youngest Taoiseach the country has ever had and the issue I raise is one our generations share as a major issue, namely, housing and getting more housing built. The Government has done huge work under Housing for All which has been successful as regards...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...has an open mind on this. There are potentially lessons that can be learned from some of the responses we have put in place to assist people in the humanitarian situations arising in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. I see the excellent use of modular or rapid-build housing in many places such as Backweston and Mahon in County Cork. I raised the use of modern methods of construction...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Brendan Griffin: ...some cases, it has dragged on for decades for people. Meanwhile, people find themselves in stressful scenarios, such as RTÉ dragging them through lengthy proceedings to have these matters addressed and still some people are not satisfied with their circumstances. The Oireachtas committee on media will meet next week. Individual workers, according to advice from the Office of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Protection commenced an investigation into the PRSI classification of RTÉ's contractors. RTÉ provided the Department with lists of 695 workers who were engaged on a contract basis in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and these form the basis of the investigation. The scale of the investigation in RTÉ is significant and further workers may be brought into the scope of the investigation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are out of time now and there are five speakers left, so I ask for their co-operation with brevity.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: I will follow up on a comment the Taoiseach made earlier about the supposed good news and the clinical lead of the paediatric diabetes service in Mullingar. With the greatest respect, the information the Taoiseach put on the record of the Dáil is not entirely correct, because that letter was not seen by the clinical lead, Professor O'Grady, until after it had been issued to parents....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: -----to be able to read the rates and that they need the service to be properly resourced.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I appreciate Deputy Clarke raising the issue and the seriousness of it. The information I put on the record of the House is the information I was given, that an interim plan was discussed with the clinical lead at a meeting last week - that is what my note tells me and I can only relay that to the House - and that hospital management provided a commitment to finalise a solution to address...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: The issues surrounding apartment and fire defects have highlighted in some instances the deficiencies in the Multi-Unit Developments Act. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to review this legislation. Given the Government's time is drawing to a close, will this review start and, more important, finish before the programme for Government finishes?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: There is nothing yet. The Government will run until March 2025, but I will get an update from the Minister about the important issue the Deputy raised. I know he has raised it before and that people are looking for timely news about it. I will get him a written note.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise the plight of the Gaeltacht community in Waterford, An Rinn and the whole parish. The GP services have closed recently. The refurbished Garda station is now shuttered and the gardaí have been transferred. There are no gardaí there and now the post office is to close. An existing retailer in An Rinn is looking into a post office contract and was asked to contribute...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...familiar with the issue, my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, tells me she spoke to the new Minister of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht, Deputy Thomas Byrne, this morning and he has committed to take a look at the issue. We will revert to the Deputy directly about it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: The Restaurants Association of Ireland has raised serious concerns about the fact that 212 restaurants have closed. This equates to a loss of €288 million to our economy. The Irish Hairdressers Federation has also expressed serious concern and raised the need for the VAT rate to be reduced to 9% again. This would protect jobs in restaurants in our small towns and villages and in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I appreciate the seriousness of the issue the Deputy raised and the pressure small businesses are under. I intend to work with Government colleagues to see how we can support small businesses. The budget will be published in October. The budget conversations seem to start earlier every year, but I take on board the seriousness of the matter the Deputy raised and I am happy to engage with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...who do not have a secondary school place yet for September. We have been repeatedly told that a solution will be found for them. We are only five or six weeks away from secondary schools closing and the primary schools will close a few weeks later. These students do not know where they will be going in late August. Entrance exams are happening at the moment. Applications for the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Whitmore for raising this issue that she raises regularly, as she rightly should. It is a stressful issue for people in Greystones, for parents and specifically for the young people who are wondering what the name of their school will be. I spoke with a school principal in Greystones about this yesterday and to the Minister for Education directly today. We need an urgent...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: This Saturday will see an important protest in Tallaght to save the post office at The Square. There are similar campaigns to save post offices in Phibsborough, Rathmines, Roscommon, New Ross and Tipperary. These are the post offices next up for privatisation by An Post. In the case of Tallaght that means the current post office will close and a new post office will open at a different...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Murphy for raising the issue. I will seek an update for him from the Minister and the CEO of An Post.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...most of the new additional ... classes may be required in [big] population centres." Burncourt National School, which is waiting for sign-off for modular accommodation for a sanctioned class, and St. Michael's Junior Boys School in Tipperary, a town with no ASD unit at primary level, are both meeting a brick wall in progressing new classes. In Newcastle, An Caisleán Nua, my local...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...not just use the term "ASD" because autism is obviously not a disorder. The Government is committed to increasing the number of autism classes. I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the Minister, Deputy Foley, to engage with the Deputy directly.