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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: How?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We published it in 2021.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: You advocated for €10 billion and now you are against it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Go and read it on the website.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Ó Broin, it is beneath you to keep distracting the House in this manner.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am being helpful to the Taoiseach to know where to find the plan.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is beneath you, sir.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is on the website.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for his assistance

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Holly Cairns.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: I warmly welcome the Government's decision to recognise the state of Palestine. The Social Democrats have long called for the Government to match its strong words on the carnage in Gaza with action, and this is a powerful move which sends a commanding message. That message is one of hope, peace, justice and freedom for an imprisoned Palestinian people being massacred by a brutal occupier....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for her contribution. I acknowledge her long-standing support and that of her party for the recognition of the state of Palestine. I am proud to be Taoiseach in a country where there has been, for a significant period, a political consensus about the importance of this. We have division in this House on many occasions, which is right and proper in a Parliament and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: Government representatives have been telling us since 2020 that the occupied territories Bill is contrary to EU law. The Taoiseach refused to clarify a really important point. Has the Government sought updated legal advice to reflect the fact we are now witnessing a genocide unfold before our eyes? That can and should change the legal advice and allow the Government to enact this important...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I have got recent legal advice. I am happy to share with the Deputy the date of the most recent legal advice. I do not have it to hand. We have engaged on this in good faith. I believe that, at a European level, we had a significant breakthrough at the last European Council meeting in April - the first one I was honoured to attend - where the unanimous conclusion was a call for an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: One of the major criticisms in the Housing Commission's damning report relates to Government waste of money. The report states: "Ireland has, by comparison with our European partners, one of the highest levels of public expenditure for housing, yet one of the poorest outcomes." Why is that the case? It is because the Government decided to pass the State's responsibility for housing people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: There are a couple of different aspects here, namely the Housing Commission report, to which the Deputy referred, and rental supports. Today, the Government will publish the Housing Commission report. In an effort to be helpful to the House and to inform debate on this, the Minister will also publish alongside it an initial assessment of where we are at with a number of the actions. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

(Interruptions).

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: Deputy Ó Broin should be very careful telling me what he does not do because I have the information here. Just to be clear on this, Sinn Féin has asked us to spend more than €10 billion on these supports. If you want to know why, it is because in an emergency while ramping up housing supply, we have to do something in the here and now. You say landlords; I say renters....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The point is that the Housing Commission report is damning. It is not neutral in its assessment of the Government's performance; it is damning and states very clearly the Government's failures. An important failing it identifies is the fact that the Government has turned what should be a temporary, short-term support into a permanent feature in the lives of many people. The Taoiseach did...