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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is €500 per year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: It is €1,000 per renter, €2,000 for a couple and up to €3,000 for three people renting because renters get it for this year and last year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is €500 per year. Stop misleading the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Before we move on, cuirim céad míle fáilte roimh na scoláirí óga thuas staighre atá ag éisteacht linn. Bogaimid ar aghaidh anois go dtí ceannaire Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre, an Teachta Bacik.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh ár gcuairteoirí freisin. Last week, I raised some stories about the human face of the housing crisis. They were stories about people at the sharp end of the housing crisis such as the 27 renters who were renting premises within a stone's throw of where I live in the south city centre off Camden Street that was not suitable for residential accommodation....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy once again for raising this important issue. I acknowledge that the public service and many private businesses are struggling to recruit and retain staff, especially in Dublin, but also all over the country. Of course, housing is a factor in that - the high cost of housing and rent and the sheer non-availability of anywhere to rent. However, it is also appropriate to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for the response. Labour has a proud record of seeking to deliver change to improve conditions for people and ensure we can deliver constructive ways to addresses crises that arise, particularly the housing crisis. What we sought to do with the HAP, about which he will be well aware, was to replace rent supplement, which had become a poverty trap, and to ensure a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (8 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: If the Minister of State puts her hand up at the Sixmilebridge mart next Saturday morning, I guarantee her there will be no discrimination. They will take her bids.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (8 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: We might leave the last word to the female Minister of State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (8 Dec 2022)

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): We are trying to bring that equality into the system. That is what we are working hard to do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (8 Dec 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Arís, maidir le srianta ama, iarraim ar bhur dtacaíocht, más é bhur dtoil é.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Tá impleachtaí anois ag an ngéarchéim tithíochta do chomhlachtaí agus do sheirbhísí poiblí, dár scoileanna agus dár n-ospidéil, ar fud an Stáit. Níl altraí ábalta tithíocht a fháil in aice leis na hospidéil ina n-oibríonn siad. Tá altraí sa tír seo againn anois a chaitheann...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue and for sharing some of the stories and experiences he has put on the record of the House. To be very clear once again, absolutely everyone on this side of the House, including everyone in government, accepts that we have a deep crisis when it comes to housing. We have seen a big increase in our population and we have an economy that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste talked about pay agreements and so on. Half the nurses in this State did not get the pay increase to which they were entitled that other public sector workers got in October. That is how we are treating nurses. The issue of rents and housing is at crisis point. The Tánaiste said the Government is not doing enough. I put it to him that so many people are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I take on board what the Deputy has said. We anticipate that foresters, with whom farmers must engage in order to avail of any of our programmes, would have a role as part of that. I would like to think that foresters would impart that advice to farmers. Certainly, I appreciate the balance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I will make another suggestion. I am seeking to ascertain the degree to which this can be expanded. Certain tree varieties, such as apple trees and pear trees, can be used for three purposes: for decorative purposes at certain times of the year, for food purposes, and for wood purposes when their lifespan has dissipated. Has any evaluation been done of the utilisation of wasteland,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I do not have the figures on that, but it is a good point. We are in the process of a land use review. Maybe part of that might identify some of these inaccessible corners. There are plenty of them. There is a good example from County Clare, where such an area is called the hare's corner....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Questions Nos. 150 to 158, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.