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- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Deputy to give way to his colleague?
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Damien English: Has Michael solutions to all this?
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Sinn Féin has been saying that Deputy Harris is not fit to be Taoiseach. Why did its members not oppose him? Was this not their chance here today to oppose him? If there is any scintilla of independence in the Independent Deputies here in this Chamber today, now is their time to come out and vote for an independent candidate for Taoiseach here today. This is their chance, but most of...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: You would make a great Tánaiste, Danny.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Tá siad ag gáire. I second the nomination of Deputy Michael Healy-Rae because I believe he is a man who listens to the people. In politics since he was ten years of age, he canvassed in by-elections. Bíonn sé ag éisteacht leis na daoine - listening to the people - which the Government parties have completely lost. We need to have a contest in this House. We...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Michael Collins: I start by wishing the former Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, and the former Minister, Deputy Coveney, the very best in their future. This will be the third Taoiseach since the Government was formed in 2020. This, in itself, shows how dysfunctional this Government has been in the past four years. This Government lacks understanding and lacks the ability or hunger to look after the ordinary...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. We are way over time.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Michael Collins: There are many more issues, such as student accommodation, hate speech and migration. All these issues need to be discussed properly before anybody would support Deputy Harris as Taoiseach.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Simon Harris will break a few records today. A man who took his seat on the 15th count, and a member of a political party that came third in the last general election, will become Taoiseach today. The Taoiseach carousel continues in this political bubble where the people of this Republic are continuously locked out of the decision-making process. There is no doubt that Simon Harris is very...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I am from Wicklow.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: -----where establishment TDs talk to themselves and the NGOs and ignore the people. I do not believe he is a man of convictions. I believe his motto is, "There go my people, I must find out which way they are going and then I will lead them". Simon Harris has a record which I believe has cost this country dearly. He threatened striking nurses with financial penalties. He announced...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I wish fair winds to Deputy Varadkar. While he got some big calls right on the macro economy, the pandemic and Brexit, this has not been a Government for all people or for all parts of Ireland. People have become divided during the term of this Government. It has pitched urban against rural, motorist against cyclist, agriculture against the environmentalist and house buyers against...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to propose an alternative in this Chamber today in the name of Deputy Michael Healy-Rae who has represented County Kerry in this Chamber for many years, and on Kerry County Council for many years before that. I believe he is well capable of carrying out the task because he has the understanding of the people. Like me, he knows what the people need and what they are concerned about....
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Thanks for watching anyway.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The first sign of this is the kite-flying around the plan-----
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: No wonder the viewing figures were up.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to renege on the promise to extend sick leave next year for workers. Already, the new Harris regime is suggesting it is going to renege on a promise to give additional sick leave to workers in order to back the interests of big business. Then, of course, there was the standing ovation over the words Simon Harris used about being repulsed, rightly, at the actions of Israel in its...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Mick Barry: Deputy Harris has chosen a song from the 1970s as his new theme song, Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". It is a great song, but I can think of one or two other tunes from that decade that might be more appropriate. For example, I can think of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" from 1971. It might sum up the mood of the electorate a little better, and it does contain...
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. He might bring a turntable with him the next time. We go now to the Regional Group. Deputy Lowry is sharing time with Deputies Tóibín and Shanahan.
- Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)
Michael Lowry: I will be supporting the nomination of Simon Harris as Taoiseach. I could join in the sound bite populist chorus of negativity. I could contend that everything in the country is a disaster and demand a general election. That might make better headlines but that is not my style of politics. There is no denying we have serious problems in housing, in health, particularly at University...