Results 341-360 of 1,025,158 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Peter Burke)
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Seven spin doctors.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Many Members of the Opposition have asked for a debate on migration. I am happy for there to be a debate in the House on migration. It is a matter for the Business Committee to decide when best to schedule that. We have our business schedule this week. Sinn Féin has had many Private Members' Business motions. Are there three this week?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We made the request and you knocked us back.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Sinn Féin also has two Private Members' motions in this House this week. One is on a very important topic indeed. There are options for people in terms of how they wish to use their proportion of Dáil time. We are happy to have a debate on migration in this House and we are happy to engage with the Business Committee as to how best to go about that and the appropriate time for that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You knocked us back.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Two weeks ago.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us also have a degree of context and fairness when we have that debate. The Government met today and considered ten actions on how we can look at a variety of ways to make our migration system more sustainable. This is not a question of abject failure. It is a question of looking at how the numbers have gone from about 3,500 people a year to one where we saw 106,000 people fleeing war...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been promised for weeks. Can we have it soon?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Neale Richmond: We want them removed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Gary Gannon: Do we get the opportunity or does the Taoiseach have the good grace to tell us what exactly the plan is? Will the Government keep fencing off the city of Dublin? That we do not have statements or the Minister for Justice answering questions this week is a poor reflection of the Government's commitment to the citizens of Dublin and the vulnerable people in those tents. As a matter of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I am addressing the Taoiseach but I address my remarks to all of the party leaders, who have eventually and finally woken up. They were part and parcel of the problem all along for the past 12 months by not allowing debate, not wanting debate and shutting down debate. They were name calling people looking for debate, like me and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group. However, now...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: There have been so many debates.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I support the call for a debate in this House. As of today, the figures for international protection applicants not offered accommodation is 1,780, which is 65 more than last Friday. I ask for that debate to take place because what is happening in our name is shocking. It is shocking for those living in tents, as has been described, and particularly dangerous for public discourse. I see...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are many legitimate requests for a debate on migration. What is not legitimate is when Members of this House say things that are completely offensive and Trumpian in fact such as things like "mouthpieces in the media" or that there has not been a debate. I am telling the Deputy that is untrue. The Ceann Comhairle can check the record of this House. There have been many, many...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is very good at that himself.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: He then says there have been no debates.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not have the figures in front of me - I will check - but I would imagine that housing commencements in Galway city are increasing-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: They cannot. They are being refused.