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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach will be very welcome.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Thank you so much. However, we have to acknowledge that policy changes have taken place in this country in relation to Ukraine. We have seen the numbers of Ukrainians coming here decrease dramatically. We can see this and the figures-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: What did the Government do with their cats and dogs? I ask the Taoiseach to answer this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let the Taoiseach answer, please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy mentioned cats, dogs and jeeps. Can we just rise to a higher level here, if the Deputy does not mind? We are dealing with a very serious situation. What people in this country want to know is that we are getting to grips with it and that we are using the various policy levers at our disposal to try to make progress. What I say to them is that when we look at the Ukrainian...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is not nearly enough.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We continue to look at a range of measures. The Deputy mentioned the Minister for Justice. I ask the Deputy to look at the actual decisions the Minister has taken around faster processing times. It is not a question of rounding people up; it is a matter providing them with clarity when they come to a country. They either have a right to be here or they do not. If they have a right to be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: With proper visas.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: If they do not have a right to be here, we make sure they leave. This is the policy of the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy McNamara.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I wish to bring to the attention of the Taoiseach a worrying trend that has come to my attention and give one example of it. It concerns a young man from the Indian subcontinent who travelled to the United Kingdom on a valid student visa issued by the UK Government. That visa allows him to work for ten hours a week only. He obviously hoped to work much more....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Next is Deputy McNamara. Níl sé anseo. We will proceed to Deputy Danny Healy-Rae on behalf of the Rural Independent Group.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is very clear to many that the Government has lost control of the migration issue. At the same time, many of our own young men and women, boys and girls, are leaving this country to go to Australia, Dubai, Canada and other places because they cannot afford to build houses or to buy them. In Kerry, they cannot even get planning permission to build houses. Many of our young farmers are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not sure where to start there. On housing supply in Kerry, the Deputy was with the Minister for housing at the opening of a new housing estate in Castleisland very recently. That is one of many examples of real progress being made in respect of housing. I thank the Deputy for turning up to report that progress for his constituents in Kerry; it is important he does that. On the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and for reaffirming his commitment to settle this issue in the lifetime of this Government and for providing me with the timeframe for making the decision for the sustainable future funding model by the summer recess. This is very welcome. I am mindful of the concerns expressed by Seamus Dooley of the National Union of Journalists when he responded to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Bacik. We will obviously have to work with parties in this House on any legislative proposals we bring forward. My commitment is that the Cabinet makes the policy decision on future funding by the summer recess. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, has been very clear that when we look through the 15 recommendations that pertain to the Government there will be a clear need...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: It seems we will have to wait for day 140 to find out how the leader of Sinn Féin intends to deliver on her commitment given in The Irish Times that she would provide people in this capital city and county with homes for €300,000.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: And less.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Sinn Féin motion to be debated tonight does not do it. As for promising people leasehold, people do not want leasehold. People want to be able to go out and buy their own homes. That is what the people the Deputy, too, must be meeting across the country tell me as well. The people in the box rooms-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: What is the Taoiseach delivering? There is no use in him talking down the clock.