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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I commend Deputy Ó Broin and the rest of my party on allowing me the parliamentary time to debate this important motion on affordable housing. We know the cost-rental and affordable purchase targets were missed by 60% last year. In fact, no affordable homes were built in my home county of Wexford. Time and again, we have seen young people's hopes dashed against the backdrop of...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Johnny Mythen: As the Minister will be very much aware, people are battling with the cost of living, inflation, higher mortgage rates, higher rents and higher energy costs, while fuel prices have risen by 30% in the past three years. That is not including the further charges the Government will introduce. Tomorrow the Government will increase the price of fuel for households. It will do so again in less...

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

Johnny Mythen: Some 186,000 Irish people are living with a neurological condition, with 50,000 diagnosed with such a condition annually. In Europe, there is an average of nine to 14 neurologists per 100,000 people. In Ireland, there is an average of just 1.3 neurologists per 100,000. We have a serious problem. The World Health Organization has stated that one in three of us will develop a neurological...

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

Johnny Mythen: There are no nurses.

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

Johnny Mythen: There are no nurses in Waterford.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank Deputy Cullinane and the Sinn Féin team for tabling the motion, which is about a life-and-death issue. I can safely say there is no one in this Chamber, or outside it, who does not have a relative or friend, or who does not know someone, who has either survived cancer or died because of it. Ireland ranks 13th out of 27 countries in terms of cancer survival. In fact, Ireland...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank Deputy Cullinane, our spokesperson for health, for bringing forward this motion. The bottom line is that local health services are under severe strain and the situation is getting worse. People in my own constituency in Wexford, and particularly in rural areas of the county, are waiting for up to four weeks to get an appointment to see their doctor. That statement alone is...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank my colleagues for bringing this important motion to the floor, particularly Deputy Tully for the personal work she has contributed towards it. The Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 is welcome. However, there is not a mention in the plan of ratifying the most important element of the UNCRPD, which is the protocol on the right for the individual to make a complaint to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht (Atógáil) - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Johnny Mythen: In a recent parliamentary question, I asked about the setting up of a promised new CAMHS team in County Wexford. I refer to the answer I received in the context of Deputy Ward's Bill to put the regulation of CAMHS on a statutory footing, which we will be voting on this legislation tonight. The reply to the parliamentary question stated that the recruitment for the third CAMHS team in...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I commend all the campaigners who stood outside the Dáil today, especially the Byrne family from County Wexford. This motion has come about due to the failure of the Government to fulfil its promise to the children who suffer from spina bifida and scoliosis. The promise was that no child would have to wait more than four months for surgery. The Minister has said the State has failed...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Johnny Mythen: We in Sinn Féin welcome the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024 and support its intention to supply extra coroners to the Dublin district and to provide temporary coroners to other districts when and where the need arises. As stated, this legislation was introduced as an instrument to create a legal avenue to allow the assignment and appointment of temporary coroners to the Dublin district...

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

Johnny Mythen: I have been contacted by elderly constituents, including people with disabilities, who need to have their homes adapted to their needs. Would the Government consider increasing the thresholds to adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities? At present, the grant only extends to a maximum of €30,000 for houses that have been built for more than 12 months and only...

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

Johnny Mythen: When will it be finished?

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank the South African Government and its legal team, especially the Irish barrister, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, for successfully seeking a provisional order from the ICJ to restrain Israel from committing potentially genocidal acts in Gaza. The highest court in the world has found there is a plausible risk that the Palestinians right to be protected from genocide is under threat from...

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

Johnny Mythen: As the Taoiseach is aware, assessments for child and adult psychology services are taking far too long. This is causing major problems for the people involved and loading major stress on their families and siblings. For instance, there is no psychologist in Wexford General Hospital in my constituency, which means that people who are often in an immediate mental health crisis or who have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Johnny Mythen: As the Taoiseach is aware all children, including those with special needs, have a constitutional right to be educated in a place and manner that is appropriate to their needs. I understand the Educate Together school in Gorey has an ASD unit fully funded and ready to go. It has space for six students and a further 18 on its waiting list. However, it is waiting on the go-ahead from the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Johnny Mythen: Retained firefighters provide fire and first responder emergency services 24-7 to our communities. I thank County Wexford members for their unwavering dedication to their job. Their recent industrial action has successfully led to an agreement on improved conditions, improved rosters and a guaranteed minimum incremental retention income of €18,000, along with an increase in the...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Johnny Mythen: The recent Residential Tenancies Board report states that new rents have increased annually by 11.6% and that existing rents have risen by 5%. This represents the highest annual increase on record. The latest figures for inflation show that it is 3.6% in Ireland. The consumer price index has risen by 5.1%. Food is up by 7%. Electricity, gas and fuels are all up by 7.2%. When these costs...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Johnny Mythen: Irish neutrality is and will be undermined by the removal of the triple lock and the changing of legislation on the dispatch of Defence Forces personnel overseas. The Government's language and U-turn on military neutrality do not keep faith with the Seville Declaration, which states that for Ireland to participate in any military operations overseas it must have authorisation by the UN...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Johnny Mythen: On behalf of farmers and the gardening industry, particularly in Wexford, I ask for an extension of the ban on green waste burning. This year's exceptionally wet summer and autumn has delayed the work in disposing of the piles of bracken and brush from ditches and so on that were saturated during the summer. I am aware that burning is allowed until 30 November. Farmers need some...