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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Jackie Cahill: The issue I want to raise is about our ambulance services. I have raised in this House many times the huge distances that our ambulances have to travel. The point I want to make today is about the critical level of paramedics operating in the service at the moment. It is putting the service at a dangerously low level. It is at breaking point. We urgently need to recruit paramedics for...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I welcome this debate. I thank the Ministers for what they have done so far regarding the weather crisis. Even though we have had a few dry bright days, the damage that has been done by the long wet spell will not disappear over a few days of sunshine. Before I left home this morning, I walked to the paddocks for the cows. The grass that is there for the second rotation is virtually...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I raise the issue of VAT rebates for farmers. Around this time last year, Revenue started to change its interpretation of what was eligible for VAT rebates by farmers. A huge number of items that were previously refundable for VAT have been taken off the list. This morning, I had calls from three farmers whose applications for refunds have been rejected. In the past 12 months, Revenue has...

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

Jackie Cahill: The HSE made a decision this week to is to postpone the opening of a community hospital in Nenagh and to use it in the immediate future as a step-down facility for University Hospital Limerick, UHL. I can understand the basis of the decision as I have spoken here many times about the huge pressure UHL is under. There is a significant waiting list for the community hospital in Nenagh. I ask...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Last week, the national restoration law passed in Brussels. I was listening to the Minister of State's speech in my office. He said we have 24 months now to get what we need in place for this measure to work effectively. I will be working closely with him during these 24 months to ensure that farmers are not the ones who pay for nature restoration. I was interested to hear the Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Jackie Cahill: This week, the European Parliament passed legislation on the restoration of nature. It is essential that there be fairness under the legislation. The maintenance of our rivers and streams is an issue I have raised previously. The situation is farcical at this stage. An angling club in Holycross approached me. It holds competitions on the River Suir in the area. It is an excellent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I raise again the issue of school bus drivers. Drivers and bus companies are on to me constantly. They are completely exasperated about the age limit that applies to school bus drivers. Under a recent change, people can hold a driver licence up to the age of 75 years without a medical report. School bus drivers are pensioners in the vast majority of cases. Driving a school bus part-time...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (8 Feb 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures he is taking to support the SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5566/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many businesses in Tipperary are likely to qualify for the increased cost of business grant; what discussions his Department has had with Tipperary County Council in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5565/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Five or six years ago, An Post closed its office on Liberty Square, Thurles, and relocated to a shopping centre in the town. That building has now been idle for years. The Government has invested hugely in Liberty Square through the urban regeneration fund. It is completely unacceptable that a semi-State body like An Post would leave a building like this in a pivotal part of the centre of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: On 10 February last year, I received an answer to a parliamentary question which indicated that the plans for a referendum on the ownership of Irish Water were well advanced. Almost 12 months have passed. I would like to know if the Cabinet has given consideration to the holding of this referendum and has a date been selected for it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I raise a Revenue issue with the Minister. Farmers who are unregistered for VAT have always been able to reclaim it for infrastructural projects on their farms. In the past couple of months, Revenue has started to exclude items from that list, for example, slurry bags, automatic calf feeders, bulk milk tanks and automatic scrapers. This is completely unjustified by Revenue. It completely...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: Regulations are being imposed on rural Ireland. Farmers and rural dwellers are becoming exasperated with the amount of regulation that is coming down from the EU. It is leaving a sour taste. The latest one is the ban on burning green waste. I am most certainly not a climate change denier, but we are being told by environmentalists that it is very good for the environment to leave growth...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: We put this matter to the Minister a couple of weeks ago here and he said he would go and examine the possibilities of having this type of investigation.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: A paragraph the Minister of State read out, and I know he was reading from a statement supplied to him, stated he was "advised that the multiagency report concluded that the problems in this herd were multifactorial in nature and that common infectious diseases were likely to have accounted for much of the ill-thrift and poor growth rates recorded". That is just fiction. When animals left...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle selecting this Topical Issue again so soon after the last night we discussed it in the Chamber. On that occasion Deputies Carthy, Fitzmaurice and McGuinness were here with me. We were unanimous on the need for an investigation into what happened on Dan Brennan's farm in Castlecomer. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his attendance at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Kyiv; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50241/23]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: The events of last Thursday shook our society to the core. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the victims and hopefully they will make a full recovery. I acknowledge the heroic efforts of the brave individuals who intervened to save the children and their teachers and our front-line workers who acted heroically on what was a black Thursday for our society. Law and order is not just...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: First of all, I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us extra time. I really appreciate it. When I spoke a few minutes ago, I outlined many unanswered questions. The least we owe to Mr. Brennan is to carry out a review of this case. His veterinary surgeon, Tom Slevin, did 35 post-mortems and 11 showed results he had never seen before. The bones of the animals were soft and could be cut...