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budget, bringing its overall budget to €1.4 billion in 2026. Tusla had approximately 5,661 whole-time staff at end of 2025, 343 more than at the same time in the previous year, including a 3.15% rise in social workers. As regards special emergency accommodation, Tusla has experienced

Department seeking emergency funding assistance to facilitate the timely delivery of the required remedial works and to ensure continued safety and serviceability of the county's road network. I have seen the extent of the damage. It is truly shocking. The roads budget does not cover

according to a 2025 Credit Union Consumer Sentiment survey, 15 per cent of Irish consumers would be unable to cope with a financial emergency costing €1,000; — a Barnardos report last year found 75 per cent of parents had to cut back or go without essential items because … where they are needed most, but there is a huge gap between what they say and what they do; — according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the Government's recent budget reduced the incomes of the poorest households by over four per cent and massively increased poverty rates among

Ministers trot into the Dáil at the end of every year looking for billions more to account for overruns. What is more, the budget process this year is cloaked in secrecy. When we ask questions in the Dáil and, as we did last night, at the budgetary oversight … committee, about it we get no substantive answers whatsoever on clear spending plans. It is, frankly, unprecedented. A very serious credibility gap has emerged. The summer economic statement is predicated on a €2 billion increase in capital spending next year, from €17.1 billion to €19.1 billion

teams in our emergency departments, staffed by advanced nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists working out of hours to support the non-consultant hospital doctor on duty and the consultant on call. I have funded these new teams for all model 4 hospitals in budget

infrastructure under upcoming emergency planning legislation. The Portarlington flood relief scheme must be included in any fast-track process. In Mountmellick, areas such as Manor Road continue to flood in times of heavy rainfall. I welcome confirmation that its flood relief scheme, with a budget of €20.8 million

budget considerations are determining the allocation of SNAs, not the professionally assessed need. Otherwise the assessment of need of those needs is futile. The money must chase the need, not the other way around. This is the equivalent of saying that the emergency department in our local hospital

increased resources in budget 2025 for Cuan and a commitment to multi-annual funding for rape crisis centres and other domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service providers. Unfortunately, in the six months since then, little has changed and more shocking cases have emerged. Tackling domestic, sexual

Parliamentary Budget Office confirmed that the Government's budget made things worse and that general poverty will increase as a result of the budget. Child poverty will increase to 15%, poverty among the elderly will increase to 17% and the poorest 20% of the population will see their … people with disabilities, who lost, according to their own assessment, €1,400 as a result of the cuts in one-off payments, emergency payments and so on. This is the reason they are going to be on a very angry demonstration on 28 February. Due to the Government

stick in terms of the carbon tax. The situation with regard to housing is the most egregious in relation to this budget. The Government has reduced VAT on apartments from 13.5% to 9%. The argument is that this will tackle the viability gap. The Government makes the argument … apartments. There is a viability gap when it comes to housing right across Ireland. That is why we have a situation which has emerged where we have a housing crisis, where there is a peak in demand for houses and yet so many parts of rural Ireland

budget surplus of €10 billion to €12 billion and the Minister is boasting, or saying, that it is sufficient to give €18 million to Cuan, which is the same as the racehorse industry gets. We have seen that this is a public health emergency. The rape crisis services

emergency powers and legislate that this happen now? We have the commitment of the House that it needs to happen now. The people of the mid-west need this now. The biggest thing here is we have gone almost €1 billion over budget with the children's hospital

access the emergency fund to repair the school roof. It has buckets on the floor. What sort of a system is that for about 1,000 students in the area? I ask the Minister to look into that. We need proper schools. We had a budget surplus

that terrible situation. This morning more than 4,600 children in one of the richest countries in the world woke up in emergency accommodation. For most of the past ten years, the Government parties have insisted that housing is its top priority. I do not know how they … than the Government is dragging its feet, presumably in an effort to cut the cost of the scheme. We know that the new budget will buy a lot fewer homes than the old one and that the point of the restrictions and prioritisation being imposed is to make

Last week, the Irish Cancer Society launched its pre-budget submission, which highlighted that patients in the west and north west face the longest wait time between cancer diagnosis and commencement of appropriate treatment. Dr. Michael McCarthy, president of the Irish Society of Medical Oncology and a consultant … launched the master plan for the hospital in Galway. Among the proposals in the master plan are additional beds, a new accident and emergency unit, a new maternity and paediatrics facility, new laboratories and a new cancer centre. I understand that the preliminary business case

complex in emergencies. This is a practical, life-saving measure. I am calling on the Government to urgently bring forward the proposed €3 million safe fund put forward by Labour Women for victims and survivors of domestic violence. This must be prioritised in the next budget cycle

emergency department in UHL is the most overcrowded in the State. There are positive things being done that should be retained and expanded. Unfortunately, such positive interventions are often quickly followed by a regressive step. One such regressive step was the announcement in Tuesday's budget

emerge. Unless this is implemented with sensitivity to the realities facing both employers and employees, it risks breeding resentment rather than reassurance. Employees in certain circumstances say that they would prefer extra take-home pay now over pension contributions, and they cite tight weekly budgets. I thank

Carbon tax detractors often claim that it is a regressive form of taxation, but I do not believe that. In last year’s budget, over €1 billion raised through the carbon tax was allocated to alleviating fuel poverty and reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, thus protecting those … unfortunate reality for some Deputies in this House is that climate change is real and it is accelerating. We have just emerged from a summer of extreme weather events both at home and abroad. We need immediate, targeted protection for households under pressure but we also need sustained

budget in 2026. Many disabled people have said they are choosing between heating and eating. One person with a spinal injury told me that since 1999, he does not remember it being this bad. When my party and I raised this and called for a modest emergency winter

emergency, there is no perfect set of policy measures, but we do have to use a whole range of levers to try to get housing supply going. That is what we are doing. There are encouraging signs that some of the decisions we took in the budget, some

post office network and the services it provides to communities, and funding will support the introduction of a new public warning system so emergency alerts can be sent directly to mobile phones during major incidents. Through the national development plan work will progress on the national velodrome … services or modern infrastructure, the purpose of public investment is the same: to improve people's lives. The choices we have made in budget 2027 reflect our determination as a Government to ensure that public investment delivers real benefits for people. A Budget for our People Taken together

budget 2025, two further teams and additional posts have been funded for 2025. In the meantime, individuals who require treatment for dual diagnosis are being supported by the relevant HSE social inclusion addiction services in their community. For hospital admissions, people with dual diagnosis are treated through emergency

Minister of State outlines to us the valid reasons why we find our healthcare community in this horrendous position and for the emergency solutions that are being implemented, along with timeframes for drastic improvements. Do the Minister of State and the Minister have concrete plans for the employment … sufficient additional professionals suitable for the roles that are lacking in Cork and Kerry? Will provision be made in the upcoming budget for the very significant increase in funding for this obviously under-resourced health service in Kerry and Cork? Is the Minister of State satisfied that

budgets must be poverty-proofed and set against the targets of the anti-poverty strategy. At a very basic level, we need a radical change in housing policy. One in four children lives in conditions of overcrowding and more than 4,700 children are living in emergency accommodation