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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: The clock is running, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I know. Everyone's clock is running.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy was well able to use social media to support the all-Ireland semi-finalists last week.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: It has been reported that the European Commission proposed to end the two-pillar Common Agricultural Policy budget and merge it with other cohesion funds. This is very bad news. We need ring-fenced budgets for agriculture and guaranteed income streams for farmers. Small family farms are being squeezed and pushed out of business. There has, of course, been an increase in the cost of food....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: They made a decision off their own bat and for their own commercial reasons. I would not approve of some of this either, particularly in terms of divesting and all of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: In terms of divesting from Jordanian and other debt, we are talking about small amounts of money which could not fund any genocide. I ask the Deputy to withdraw the assertion that the Irish Government has funded genocide. That is wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Time is up, Taoiseach. I call Deputy Paul Murphy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is the final week of Dáil sittings before the summer recess. When we return, the schools will already have started. The Minister for education previously stated that it was her intention that every child needing special education would have a place come September. Will that commitment be met or will children be left without appropriate school places? Over the course of the past...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Time is up, Deputy. Taoiseach to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: To go back to the 260, will they get offers of school places or will they be forced to turn up outside the Dáil before we come back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Deputy Murphy will be coming back in.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: First, I welcome James Maloney, who is in the Gallery with his wife Deirdre. James is an elected member of the Parliament of Canada and is affectionately known there as "the minister for Ireland". I had the pleasure of meeting with him when I was last in Canada. I hope he enjoys his visit to the Oireachtas and to Ireland, particularly as he has been a great friend to Ireland in Canada.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Every child is entitled to and has a constitutional right to an education. It is the Government's job to vindicate that right, especially for children with additional educational needs. Schools and parents consistently highlight the value of special schools and classes, particularly where there are challenges in the system with the provision of a broader range of disability supports. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that huge efforts have been made by those in the NCSE, people working in schools and, above all, parents. However, what is happening is not acceptable. This is the last Leaders' Questions the Taoiseach is going to face. He cannot back up the commitment by the Minister for education that every child needing special education will have a place come September. He is sending out...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Of course they do. In Cork schools, they do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: The Taoiseach will have be able to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach might expand on that because the parents I am talking to have to leave their kids in preschool, if the preschool will allow them to do that. In some cases, that is going to be a real problem. In other cases, they are going to have to stay at home - some will not be able to do college courses they were planning to do - in order to mind their children. Can the Taoiseach tell us...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: The Deputy has asked the question and is over time. The Taoiseach will now respond.