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- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is unclear to me, because I did not have time to check, and this is why I am posing the question, whether the Deputy voted for or against the budget in which we gave not just another tax cut to working families but the third successive tax cut. Cumulatively, these lifted 220,000 working people out of the upper tax bracket. Perhaps, then, if we extend the measure this year we will be able...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Michael Ring: I thank the Minister of State. That concludes statements to mark Europe Day.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's forbearance. I was trying to watch the clock and I missed it. On 9 May, the EU celebrates Europe Day. It is the anniversary of the historic Schuman declaration in 1950. This day is a testament to the EU's remarkable achievements in fostering unity and maintaining long-term peace. As we approach the European elections on 6 to 9 June 2024,...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Europe Day. Let us hope in the upcoming European elections it will be an Ireland day. It is heavy-heartedly I say this because we have not heard from the people representing us in Europe in five years. They turn up on European election day looking for votes and say, "we are here again." They say they are here to represent Ireland in Europe. Some 70% of the regulations for Ireland come...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Forgive me, I do not have the voting records in front of me but I do not recall whether Deputy O'Donoghue voted for or against this year's budget, in which Fine Gael and the Government introduced yet another tax decrease for working families, in particular a targeted----
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A tax decrease.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Michael Ring: The Minister of State has the floor.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: She does not have the record so she should not comment. She would want to have her facts.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will just talk again because he has no manners.
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Thomas Pringle: On 9 May 1950 the foundation of the European Union was set out in a declaration based on two core principles, namely, peace and solidarity. This is what the European Union was set up to achieve but as each year passes the EU distances itself further and further from these core principles. Peace and solidarity are no longer at the heart of European policy, and selfishness and greed have...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I speak today as a committed European. I deplore what is being said in our name, as a woman, a mother and an Independent TD. I have just looked at the report of the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly. She tells us about soft corruption and the revolving door of officials going out and then becoming lobbyists. What really struck me in addition to this was her comment on the tragedy last...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Today, on the eve of Europe Day, of course we look at the positives that Europe has offered Ireland and that Ireland has offered Europe in return. I want to look at something in my brief of further and higher education. This relates to a proposal about research that has come to light and causes me concern. We know how important research is. It looks at planning for the future and how best...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Cathal Berry: I bid the Minister good evening. I am very grateful for the opportunity to make some brief comments to mark Europe Day on behalf of the Regional Group. While Ireland only joined 51 years ago, it is very fair to say that Europe has had a transformative effect on the country from a economic, environmental and societal perspectives. As the previous speaker mentioned, it is very important to...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: We are here with statements on Europe Day a day early. I do not think many people in here are proposing that we leave the EU. There are many of us who can talk about the absolute benefits we have seen from the EU. People have described it as the most successful peace process in the world. We know the help it gave our own peace process. We saw the significant solidarity we were shown...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Gary Gannon: We are asked today to make statements on Europe Day so let me make a statement straight off the bat. Europe is complicit in the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and under that blanket, nothing else matters. When the Tánaiste spoke earlier, in Trumpian fashion, he equated the right and the left and spoke of a collective cynicism about the EU as if those two groups shared the same...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
John McGuinness: I first want to go back to the statement made in this debate by Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn. I support entirely the statement and the comment in relation to the European Union and the need for a common-sense approach. I do so because I often follow the seafood sector, including John Shine, of Shine's Seafood, which distributes wild Irish tuna. I watch carefully the mapping Mr. Shine...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: I agree with the points made by the previous speaker on the Common Fisheries Policy. It has not just decimated fisher communities, it has also created an ecological disaster. It is totally unsustainable. Having looked at the Amárach Research poll carried out North and South, it is quite remarkable how favourably Irish people look upon the EU. The polling results are quite positive...
- Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As we are debating Europe Day and Ireland's place in the EU, I will take the opportunity to talk about one group for which the experience has been negative, our fishing and coastal communities. The issue relates to how the Common Fisheries Policy has been rolled out, interpreted and enforced in Ireland and how it has repeatedly gone unchanged. A 14-year-old girl has done more than most in...