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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I wish to raise the rising cost of home insurance. Several people in County Kerry contacted me recently about soaring premiums. This is happening at a time when insurance companies are reporting soaring profits as well. I accept there is inflation in terms of construction and the cost of replacing damaged properties. However, from what I have seen and the evidence that has been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Based on a recommendation of the report of the child maintenance review group, child maintenance payments were due to be disregarded from the means test for social welfare payments from 1 May under the Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023. This means that many lone parents on reduced rates of payment will see their payments increase and others will qualify for a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy. It is yet another example of the detailed issues he brings. I will follow it up and will talk to the Minister about the status of that recommendation. I will revert to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Going back to Clonmel again, this is a situation with water. We are in a very perilous situation as I said earlier, with outages on a daily or definitely on a weekly basis. Businesses have no certainty and nor do householders. We have a lovely supply in Poulavanogue in rural Clonmel, with rivers supplying from the mountain. Irish Water is hellbent on disconnecting and decommissioning that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not have the specifics of the case the Deputy raised in respect of the water supply issues within Clonmel. I understand Irish Water holds clinics for Deputies and to engage with local public representatives. I will investigate the matter, talk to the Minister and get an update.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: On 28 November 2022, Judge Geoffrey Shannon informed survivors of child sexual abuse that he had submitted his report to the board of St. John Ambulance Ireland. In February, I raised the fact that it had been nearly a year since the publication of the damning report but that survivors were still waiting on St. John Ambulance to implement the recommendations. Today, survivors are still...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will talk to the Minister for children about this very serious issue. I would be somewhat surprised if the recommendations were not being followed through. I will get a report back from the Department of children in respect of this and forward it to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Some 72 people have lost their lives on Irish roads so far this year. That is more than three people every week who have not arrived home safely to their families. This is a crisis. If we were losing three people a week on our rail or bus network, they would be shut down immediately until we had investigated why it was happening. We have a Road Safety Authority that has not shared crash...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy. I fundamentally agree. We have all been shocked by the recent loss of life on our roads and concerned by the worrying increase in road fatalities after many years of progress in making our roads safer. I have always given great credit to the former Minister, Noel Dempsey, who took on a lot of opposition in the House when he brought in some fundamental measures...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Tánaiste and Deputy Cannon might correspond with each other.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Patrick Costello: I also raise the issue of St. John Ambulance and the failure to implement the report. Deputy Pringle has laid out the facts. All I would add is that the Government is now funding a safeguarding officer for St. John Ambulance, partly because of the organisation's inability to fund it itself and partly because of the absolute necessity for such a role. When similar concerns about child...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Department is working on this. As the Deputy said, the key recommendation of Judge Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's independent review report on the handling of past complaints of abuse in St. John Ambulance was the appointment of a national safeguarding officer by the St. John Ambulance Ireland organisation. The national safeguarding lead is to work with the organisation for an agreed, specified...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: When the Tánaiste was Taoiseach in 2022, he gave a commitment that he would phase out long-term leasing. Since then, leases have been signed for 182 social housing units in Cork city. That is at a cost of €3 million per year that the Government is spending, with an average cost of €400,000 for these homes after 25 years. The council and the Government will not own these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am not aware of the situation pertaining to the appointment of any county manager and I do not think it is appropriate that we cast aspersions on it. That was quite some time ago, I would say. I did not pick up on the vanity project that Deputy McGrath mentioned earlier. Was it the transformation of a car park into a venue?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. It is not needed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not know what the broader view in Clonmel is on that so I will not comment specifically on it. On the borough council - and I do not want to be mischievous as the Ceann Comhairle is looking at me very sharply - I think it was a Labour Party policy at the time-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It has apologised for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It came forward with the idea. It has changed many years later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Why do you not bring them back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It was Deputy Howlin at the time when he was the Minister-----