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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Before I ask my question, perhaps the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will give me the opportunity on this, the last day of this term in the Dáil - although some of us will be here for committees next week and the coming weeks - to thank all the staff on behalf of Sinn Féin, and I am sure everyone else, who keep this place working and going, whether that is in the canteen or the ushers,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: On the last day of the Dáil, many around the country will look to mark the Government's report card, so let us have a look at it. The attendance record has been atrocious so far. It is 230 days since the general election and the Government has turned up to the Dáil for 59 of those. That is 75% of the time that has elapsed since the election in which the Government has not come to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Thank you, Deputy Tóibín, but please conclude.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: According to a reply I received today to a parliamentary question,-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: -----707 prisoners were unlawfully away from prison last year and there were still 131 missing from the prison system at the end of the year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Resume your seat, Deputy Tóibín.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: Is it not the case that, in the last seven months, the Government has been floundering?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Simon Harris: Before I get into the politics of some of that, when we are talking about domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, which is an important topic, can we please be clear that increased reporting is a good thing?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: No, it is not just increased reporting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Simon Harris: Let us have a little bit of decorum in how we speak in this House. The Deputy has spoken for three minutes. I am just looking to reply. The Minister, Helen McEntee, has done more than any Minister in the history of our State in terms of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a zero-tolerance strategy. I am very proud of the work of this Government around the issue. We have a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: The increase in domestic violence statistics are not down to increased reporting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Simon Harris: I did not say that either.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: They are down to increased domestic violence. To hide that fact is actually dangerous as well.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Simon Harris: I just asked the Deputy-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: Let us talk about the health service, which the Tánaiste mentioned. Billions of euros have been poured into the HSE and we are getting less and less in return. The national children's hospital, which the Tánaiste signed for, is still mired in cost overruns and delays. There have been 500,000 adverse incidents in hospitals just in the last five years and 3,142 people died as a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Thank you, Deputy Tóibín. Please resume your seat.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
Peadar Tóibín: -----and are hardwired to increase for the next five years. The Government is hurting people at the moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Tánaiste to reply.