It went up €100 last night and €50 more this morning.
TDs / Pearse Doherty
Pearse Doherty
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- constituency Donegal 29 November 2024 to now
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The Minister is not answering the question.
Okay.
Does the Minister want to answer the question?
I will happily take his seat and answer all of the questions. Home heating oil went up €100 last night-----
-----and the Minister is just ignoring the point.
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. I want to begin by welcoming the announcement of the first State-led early learning and childcare capital projects, including the proposed new facility in Raphoe Community Playgroup in my constituency of Donegal. It is an area I campaigned on for quite a while and one my party leader visited at the very start. It is very welcome news for those families, the staff and the wider com…
I thank the Minister of State for her response but the problem is that it does not really cut it with the community in Raphoe. I think the Minister of State appreciates that.
In one way, this is kind of simple. This is a community childcare facility. The building is going to fall down. We have all accepted that. We know that with defective blocks. It has been tested and it is going to fall down. It is going to becom…
-----so that the Department goes away, looks at this and builds on what we have done in Raphoe, which has been really positive.
I appreciate that. I thank the Minister of State.
Amharcfaidh oibrithe agus teaghlaigh ar an cháinaisnéis seo agus cuirfidh siad ceist shimplí amháin orthu féin: cén difear a dhéanfaidh sé seo i mo shaol i ndáiríre? An mbeidh sé níos fusa dom na billí a íoc? An mbeidh an cíos níos inacmhainne? An mbeidh mé ábalta an teach a choinneáil te an geimhreadh seo? An mbeidh seans ag mo pháistí teach dá gcuid féin a cheannach? Ar ndóigh, do go leor daoine amuigh ansin, is é …
Budgets are about choices: who is put first and who gets left behind. Time and time again, this Government leaves ordinary Irish people behind: those who keep Ireland moving, those who work hard and are trying to build a life for themselves here at home. The Government is hell-bent on making life harder with the choices it makes. With its leaks all weekend, this Government has talked about giving €750 back to workers…
The majority of Irish workers, over 1.5 million, who the Government has left abandoned in this budget, will get less than €250 in a tax break. That is an insult. The Minister, then, has the cheek to stand here and say that this is a budget for workers. It is nothing of the sort.
It is less than €5 a week at a time when people have seen price increase after price increase over the past year. That is the reality behind the Government's spin. Workers and families are looking at what they will actually have left, and that is where this budget completely fails the test.
In fact, it can be summed up in five simple words: gone before you get it. Tá sé imithe sula bhfaigheann daoine é. People do no…
Households are being told to tighten their belts, while companies are making extraordinary profits and being left untouched by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. That, a chairde, is a political choice. The Government is deciding to take a side, and it is very clear which side it is on. Ireland should not be the country where families face the highest electricity bills in Europe while energy companies pocket bumper profits. B…
After years of paying rent, saving and watching house prices climb faster and faster, they still do not have the deposits they need. They have had years of being told that they have to put their lives on hold. That demanded a massive response from the Government, a massive amount of understanding, a bold intervention, a budget that said "Enough", a budget that would allow us to build homes at scale, a budget that und…
After years of failure, the Government still clings to the broken model: more tax breaks, more subsidies, more incentives and more public money for developers, institutional investors and corporate landlords. Let us look at the Government's record.
The Taoiseach should look at his record.
Let us look at it.
How does the Taoiseach like this for a record? House prices are soaring under his leadership. That is a fact. Rents are soaring under his leadership. That is a fact.
Mortgage burdens have grown. That is another fact. Homelessness has risen. Does the Taoiseach accept that as a fact? Home ownership has moved further beyond the reach of working people. Homes are places — this is what the Taoiseach does not get — where people should be able to live, raise their families and grow old together. The Government has turned homes into commodities. It has allowed institutional investors and…
Timmy, when you go back to Clare, you will force people who are earning a fraction of what you earn-----
Many of your constituents would love to be in your situation, where they do not have to worry about how to heat their homes or put food on the table. The Government is telling people they are getting €10, which does not even keep up with the cost of rises in prices. Yesterday, hundreds of households had their electricity prices go up and 1 million will in the next week, yet you want to shout over me when I am standin…
What should have been delivered is a real, meaningful cost-of-living package. Some of the Government TDs do not like to hear this truth. They like to believe the spin they live under in their little bubble. One in five children in this State is currently living in poverty - one in five children. Simon Harris spoke about surpluses of €9.5 billion. That means nothing to parents or children living in poverty. Poverty me…
That would pay to bring childcare costs down to €10 per day and we would still have a few million euro left. They are the political choices I would make, but the Tánaiste has decided to protect the vulture funds and let families wait a bit longer before we bring in real affordable childcare. Sinn Féin has also made clear that it is not just about affordability. Spaces need to be available and that is why we argued th…