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Finance Bill is being praised by the Government, along with the tax cuts made in the budget, and we heard statements that the budget was for those who get up early in the morning, the truth is that the working person is still struggling to make ends meet … highlighted by other Members that Ballyheigue does not have any drinkable water. This has gone on for two weeks. Has the Government an emergency budget to address this water contamination? Apparently seawater has got into the supply. I have been told by many locals what happened there. They

Departments in managing public expenditure. It also sets out the different phases of escalation and the corrective actions available where expenditure pressures emerge. Budget 2026 placed greater emphasis on reform, efficiency and the outputs and outcomes supported by public spending. This ensures a clearer link between investment

landlords and property owners. These include the 11 Irish billionaires who are wealthier than 3. 5 million Irish people combined. On housing, the budget shows that the Government is wedded to the failed housing policy of the past that has created almost 18,000 homeless people, including over … crisis-first emergency residential system, reacting only when a parent or carer becomes unwell or dies. The campaign had asked for an emergency fund in budget 2027 for residential places. The Government did not provide it. It should have. Last year, the Government made families supporting a person

continue on our current path, the State faces costs of between €8 billion and €26 billion by 2030. This budget should have taken emergency actions to avoid this monumental waste of taxpayers' money. The Government's inaction is robbing the taxpayer blind. Think about what €26 billion would … instead. It is worse for the hospital, for the taxpayer and for the patient. The Social Democrats would end this debacle. Our alternative budget commits an additional €957 million to fund the Sláintecare reform plans to provide more community therapy posts, more hospital ICU beds, and a properly

delivery, and the Minister of State deserves great credit for it, especially given the challenges that exist in securing funding. Of course, the budget is only as good as the services it pays for and delivers upon. In Dún Laoghaire, people know their mental health services by name … care first. An emergency department is rarely the right place for a person in mental distress. Solace cafés are already reducing emergency department presentations. This budget will bring the number of cafés to 15 by the end of next year, and it will also bring the vital SCAN

Fine Gael? We got no increased funding for building homes. None. Not a bit. In the middle of a housing emergency, this is not a budget designed to turn the housing crisis around

ringfenced, dedicated funding in the budget specifically to reduce the duration people, and families in particular, are spending in emergency accommodation? Threshold made a very good pre-budget submission. Some €84 million is the figure it put forward. I would like to know the Minister's thoughts

lacking, and that is housing. The urgency in relation to this crisis is nowhere to be seen in this housing budget. We are in a housing emergency, a crisis that is reshaping how an entire generation lives. Young people remain in childhood bedrooms because they cannot afford

should happen. It is incumbent on every regional executive officer to plan strategically for their recruitment for the following year. They got a budget uplift of 6% last year and 6% this year, higher than other parts of the Government, and they have an obligation to plan every … health system, including when accounting for complexity. The most expensive part of healthcare are inpatient day cases, not emergency departments. Activity there has increased by only 2%, notwithstanding a budget increase of 6%. We plan based on demographics; that is what we do. We plan to grow based

Local authorities will continue to work with households to identify appropriate pathways out of emergency accommodation, including through social housing, HAP and Homeless HAP. Significant resources are being provided to support this response. Budget 2026 provided a total allocation of €563.5 million to address homelessness. This included

independent investigation delivers accountability and protect staff who come forward; the measures she is taking through budget 2027 to address significant workforce shortages, increase ambulance capacity and improve emergency response times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72942/26

sort of perceptions about the level of the staffing. I am advocating for more staff, just in a strategic way and within budget. There are genuine demand pressures in all of the areas the Deputy has raised. We presumed for demographic growth of 2.1% but activity growth, which … broadly in line with the demographic growth assumptions underpinning budget 2026. In the four regions currently subject to enhanced financial control, inpatient activity ranged from a decrease of 1.2% to an increase of 2.6%. By comparison, emergency Department admissions increased by 5.3% nationally, with growth in the four

central priorities of budget 2027 is strengthening our response to people experiencing a mental health crisis and reducing lives lost to suicide. Building on the crisis nursing teams I announced this year for all model 4 hospital emergency departments, crisis nursing teams will now be established … budget 2027 will provide two new crisis resolution teams - one in Wexford and the other in north Tipperary - and six new drop-in Solace crisis cafés - Carlow, Louth, Wexford and north Tipperary and two more in Dublin - giving people experiencing a crisis an alternative to attending an emergency

into account. Local authorities spend 18 times more on short-term emergency accommodation than they do on prevention or tenancy sustainment. Some 70% of that funding goes directly to private providers. There is nothing in this budget that gives any sense of things changing any time soon

years ago. That is exactly what is happening now. The Government's budget is based on a 2% demographic growth, yet we are seeing actual demand in the health service far outpace that. Emergency department, ED, admissions are up 6.75% this year, general admissions … replies to parliamentary questions from the HSE telling me it is forecasting demand for next year only now, after it has got its budget allocation. No wonder the health service is in crisis. No commercially viable business would ever operate like that, so why does the Government make

into a homelessness prevention framework. The staggering amount of money we are spending on emergency accommodation is an indictment of how Government has failed. Everything that has been floated in the budget has related to essentially putting up house prices for first-time buyers. When exactly will

Longford and Westmeath. Deputy Shane Moynihan - to discuss progress on the publication of an emerging preferred route for the Luas for Lucan and overall project delivery timelines. Deputy Seán Kyne - to discuss budget 2027 provision of funding to increase capacity and frequency on Galway commuter bus routes. Deputy

They are doing an extraordinary job. They have safe staffing applied in the emergency department and throughout the hospital. I commend all of the people in Limerick who are managing much increased services on budget

insult and it shows the Government's housing plans are not actually about delivering affordable housing but about pumping the market. The budget is illusion and spin. There is spin that the Government is helping people to afford a home but what are the measures actually about? They … pages of budget speeches. There is no investment in preventing homelessness or no ban on evictions. The Government does not care for our most vulnerable. When it does trumpet in terms of homelessness, it states we have record levels of spending on emergency accommodation. It is not spending

capability. Our investment in resilience does not stop at our coastline. Budget 2027 will further enhance our cyber capabilities, supporting the work of the joint cyber operations unit. It will provide additional investment in national resilience, emergency planning and preparedness. In particular, it will provide a significant increase

children trapped in emergency homeless accommodation. There is an entire generation locked out of affordable homes, trapped in their parents' box bedroom or forced to emigrate. Nowhere is this Government's failures more clearly demonstrated than in housing. What did we get from the budget today … crisis worse. Budget 2027 could have been the start of a real effort to fix housing. It could have been a housing budget with ambition and determination. Instead, it is just a rehash of what came before it, which means rising rents and housing prices. Today should have

community care as opposed to responding directly in our emergency departments and otherwise, people are living longer, so there is a significant demand on resources more generally, including in Portlaoise hospital and other hospitals. That is why the budget for health in 2027 represented a €1.6 billion increase

national population, are likely to benefit in the medium term, if at all. We also need to focus on vision. This budget lacks a long-term vision. It pays lip service to what needs to be done to put us on a secure future footing but it does … have to make emergency decisions to help hard-pressed families and individuals. It was also an opportunity to refocus on services and targeted adjustments to help those who really need it rather than a catch-all. Above all, the budget is dangerously inflationary. Two things are clear

after this budget, are very simple. Why is it so expensive to live in Ireland and raise a family? Why can working people not afford a home? Why are renters paying rip-off, record rents? Why are hospitals overcrowded, accident and emergency departments under daily pressure and close … Comhairle, we have now had a decade of the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael partnership Government. This is the 11th Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael budget. I realised that I had listened to a different version of the same budget 11 times now. Sure, the Ministers change, the numbers

doing their best, but the budget does not do its best for its people. Let us take the universal social charge, brought in by a Fianna Fáil Administration in 2011, that was sold as a temporary measure for tax at an emergency time. The emergency ended long … pure stagecraft by the Government. Today in rural Ireland, a fill of kerosene is €700 more than it was last year. The budget takes off €40 to €50, and another €140 in fuel allowance for those lucky enough to get fuel allowance. That

Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a breakdown of the 212 residential places funded under budget 2027; the rationale for reserving 112 of these places exclusively for emergency admissions rather than planned residential care transitions; the strategy in place to move away from a reactive crisis-driven

independent investigation delivers accountability and protect staff who come forward; the measures she is taking through budget 2027 to address significant workforce shortages, increase ambulance capacity and improve emergency response times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72942/26

Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health if she will allocate €120 million in Budget 2027 for the establishment of dedicated Mental Health A&Es, separate from general Emergency Departments, given concerns raised by communities including Ballinasloe following recent tragedies and in light of the limited

Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in relation to the announced funding in Budget 2027 for 212 residential places in 2027, the number that are new beds; and the number that are reserved for emergencies only. [73227/26