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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: Has the Taoiseach taken a walk along the Grand Canal lately? I did earlier today and over the weekend. What is usually a public amenity for the citizens of Dublin, where you would see people on a day like today having a picnic or a jog along the canal, has seen fencing erected by this Government. The Taoiseach should not shake his head. He orchestrated a multi-agency task force. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Connolly for raising the question. I think she will understand and appreciate that I may have to come back to her on some of the specific issues she has highlighted in relation to her constituency, as is right and proper for her to do. On a broad level, when we look at the issue of housing and balanced regional development, I accept the importance of needing to look at in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps I can use a little bit of the time the Taoiseach did not use, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, because this is really important. It should not be up to me to raise this issue with the Taoiseach. We have Uisce Éireann, which the body in charge, and the local authorities. We have plans and conditions have been set as part of a licence which are not being complied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I probably am not on the same types of hustings as the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is true; I have not met her on them yet anyway.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Some 8% of workers in this country are on the minimum wage and they are the people I meet. The postponement of an increase for them is cruel and unnecessary. Instead of tackling the businesses by getting them to pay different rates, the Government is attacking workers' rights again. Almost a year ago we brought a Bill before the House to get rid of the discrimination against young workers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is either an unintentional or deliberate misunderstanding of the Government's increased cost of business scheme, which is targeted. I am sure Opposition Deputies have often got queries into their constituency offices as to why someone over a certain threshold does not qualify. There are very clear thresholds showing that this is being targeted, as Deputy Smith knows. If any Member of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is what you are doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is what you wish we would do. That is what you would thrive on us doing. That is what you would like to tell people we do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: This is spin. You are-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Taoiseach without interruption.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: Every time I speak it is something. Every time you speak it is authoritative and every time I speak you try to degrade it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is because I am an authoritative-type person.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is because you know everything and fair play to you. I will tell you this. We cut taxes. We cut childcare costs. We increased the minimum wage. We introduced statutory sick pay. We support remote working. We are building more homes. We have the backs of workers in this country. We do not need any lectures from you on it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom an spotsolas a dhíriú ar chathair agus contae na Gaillimhe inniu. Mar is eol don Taoiseach, is cathair álainn í. Go teoiriciúil, is cathair dhátheangach í agus geata chuig an Ghaeltacht is mó sa tír. Tá an t-ádh dearg orainn go bhfuil lánfhostaíocht sa chathair ach tá fadhbanna tromchúiseacha ó...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: At a cost of 3.2 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That figure is not correct.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Reports in the media indicate - the Taoiseach can confirm this - that following the Cabinet meeting this morning, the Government intends to roll back labour market measures, including the further roll-out of a minimum wage to a median wage and the increase in sick leave, which is to be staggered until 2026 to bring the entitlement of sick leave for every worker up to ten days. I get it that...