James Geoghegan

I am disappointed in the reply that the officials have written for the Minister. It is the same as a written reply I got to a parliamentary question on this specific issue. The reality is that the childminding services regulations do not apply to the care of a child by what the Department terms as a nanny or an au pair, but what normal people term as childminders working in the family home. This i…

Does the Minister accept that the wording she has read out and which her officials have supplied to her directly conflicts with the commitment in the programme for Government to extend the national childcare scheme to childminders who work in the family home? We all understand the current legal position and the current status quo. The Minister was part of the negotiation of the programme for Gover…

19. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the power up grant to businesses that have not been able to avail of the support because of administrative issues; the number of businesses in Dublin 2, Dublin 4, and Dublin 6 that have availed of the grant to date; the total value of this uptake; and if he will make a…

I thank the Minister of State and wish him well in his new brief. The context of this discussion about an accommodation levy in Dublin is really straightforward. It relates to the funding of the recommendations of the Dublin city task force. The task force identified that the capital costs to fulfil those recommendations would be between €750 million and €1 billion and that the ongoing operational…

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The introduction of any new tax or levy will never be a popular initiative. I fully acknowledge that if the Government took a decision that the way in which the recommendations of the Dublin city task force were to be funded is through the introduction of an accommodation levy, the Department and the line Minister would have a huge role in engaging with…

I welcome the Minister of State to her new role. Having witnessed her handling of RTÉ, her response to the AI revolution will be child's play in comparison to the challenges she faced as Chair of that committee. I welcome her appointment to this post and it is a very good decision by the Government to have a Minister of State dedicated to this important issue. I welcome this debate on how we can …

5. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach when he expects the interdepartmental group on the Dublin city task force report to submit its report to the Government. [4439/25]

6. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach when he expects the interdepartmental group on the Dublin city task force report to submit its report to the Government. [4799/25]

The events on South Anne Street late on Saturday night were some of the worst and most shocking scenes we have seen in our city since the Dublin riots. As the Taoiseach said, we are all thinking of the family of the victim and of the victims who were subjected to the violent attacks that took place in Stoneybatter. The pretext for the Dublin city centre task force established by the Tánaiste was s…

GeoDirectory data recorded by The Irish Times identified 14,500 derelict buildings in Dublin city. As the Taoiseach knows, in the programme for Government we have committed to implementing the recommendations of the Dublin city task force. The only way in which that task force can work is if it is fully funded. I acknowledge from replies given by the Tánaiste last Thursday that the interdepartment…

12. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to report on the preparatory work within his Department in advance of Ireland assuming the Presidency of the European Council in 2026. [4436/25]

13. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the measures being taken to weather any economic storms which may be triggered by trade and tax policies implemented by the new Administration in the United States. [4435/25]

As this is the first time I have spoken in the Dáil, I want to thank the constituents of Dublin Bay South and my family and friends for getting me here. The programme for Government contains a very clear commitment that the city centre task force report for Dublin will be implemented in full. Does the Tánaiste agree that we cannot police our way out of problems in Dublin city? We need to deliver a…

I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, for his kind remarks. I wish him well in his new role as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs. I commend each of the negotiators in the three groupings of Fine Gael, which is my own party, Fianna Fáil and the regional Independents for coming together and developing this programme for Government. It is an ambitious programme focused…