Results 521-540 of 1,017,398 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Paul Murphy) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Doherty for raising this matter. This is a really important service and a really important issue. It is important we get the dental service children need at a young age. That is why it is in the school system. It is also a key priority for the Government. We have been investing over €200 million annually in the provision of oral healthcare, targeting, in particular,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The one thing on which I can agree with the Minister is that there is serious pressure on the system. Where we differ, however, is that the Government is putting the pressure on the system. The clinical lead tells us in correspondence we have from the HSE that it is a Government decision that is preventing these children from being treated. We have a serious problem. One in two children...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: We are recruiting staff.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Read you own memo.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: Obviously, we have to work within the budgetary envelope-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: The Government has an embargo in place.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: -----that is provided. However, a record number of staff have been employed across the health service during the lifetime of this Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The HSE states that no additional staff will be appointed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, let the Minister respond.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Murphy likes to portray that. He peddles the story that somehow Irish agriculture is industrial and not the family farm as we portray it. That is totally false.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: The biggest part of it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: The reality has been-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: Most of it is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: If the Deputy had been paying any attention to what I have been doing as Minister over the past five years-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I have.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)
Charlie McConalogue: -----he would have seen I have delivered a CAP programme which has increased by 50% the funding we are giving to farms, and we are directing that particularly at smaller and medium-sized farms. For example, I have introduced front-loading of the payments that farmers get in respect of the first 32 ha. We are reallocating funding specifically to smaller and medium-sized farmers to encourage...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Flood Relief Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent report completed by Teagasc and submitted to his Department about the impact on farmers following damage to their farmland as a result of recent flooding on the Cooley Peninsula in November 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18433/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will the Minister give his views on the recent report submitted to his Department by Teagasc about the impact on farmers following damage to their farmland as a result of the flooding on the Cooley Peninsula in November 2023? We have discussed this a number of times. We spoke about the fact that there is not an off-the-shelf support scheme. I am very glad this piece of work was done. I...