Results 161-180 of 1,021,747 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Paul Kehoe OR speaker:Chris Andrews) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There has not been a decision on the next phase, but there is a review.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Fine Gael has made a decision.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is not a decision. Let us be very clear-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Tánaiste should talk to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform about it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is an issue. The most fundamental thing is to create employment opportunities in our economy. Most people want to be at work. The Deputy nodded in affirmation that the hospitality and retail sectors have been on to him. The first people to lose out if costs become unsustainable are those very vulnerable and low-paid workers he was talking about, because it will mean fewer people...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: These are rights taken for granted right across the European Union.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: Special needs assistants are being denied equal health and safety leave provision while pregnant. They are given just 21 days' leave if deemed at risk in the work environment. This means they have to use other leave to compensate for long-term absence if they encounter risk in the early stages of pregnancy. Contagious diseases are more common in younger children and these diseases are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. When I was Minister for Education in 1998, I took a decision and brought a related memorandum to the Cabinet providing for the employment of SNAs for the first time in mainstream schools. It was a watershed decision and I can recall how dubious Department of Finance officials were about my protestations to the effect that the measure...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: SNAs are given 21 days' leave if deemed to be at risk in the work environment. Teachers and SNAs should be treated the same and I do not want to see any disparity. Providing special needs assistance is a vocation, as far as I am concerned. Tomorrow at my constituency office, there will be queues of people looking for facilities for their children. When a child goes to school and is looked...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Why is the Deputy shouting? We can hear him.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: How do we know? The Central Statistics Office is telling us. The Government is locking out an entire generation from home ownership and locking people into sky-high rents. The vulture funds and investors are sweeping up those houses and renting them out at astronomical prices. That is Government policy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's time is up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will ask a simple question again. The Tánaiste can shake his head all he wants. Where are the 50,000 affordable houses that he promised to deliver that would cost less than €250,000? Please answer that question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is noticeable from his reply that the Deputy avoided any response to the fundamental problem-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: It is Leaders' Questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Build the homes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please Deputies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There are 550 first-time buyers each week now buying their first home. Mortgage drawdowns by first-time buyers reached a new peak at almost 26,000 in 2023. That is the highest annual level since 2007.