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- 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.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: When Fianna Fáil crashed the economy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Listening to the Deputy one would be forgiven for thinking that none of that is happening. What has been important in that is the expanded help-to-buy scheme of €30,000 to support home ownership.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It pushes up house prices.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: More than 45,000 first-time buyers have benefited and the Deputy's party wants to take that support away from those who want to buy their first home.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It pushes up house prices.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The first home scheme and the shared equity scheme was opposed by the Deputy.