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better. These regulations ensure employees receive more complete information on their work, set new limits on probationary periods and offer workers enhanced rights to seek additional employment. This Government has protected and will continue to protect workers when they need it most, for example, when they lose their … information campaign on this new right, following the Bill's enactment. I will also ask the WRC to update its code of practice on longer working to take account of the changes introduced. The Bill completed Second Stage in this House on 8 April. I hope the Dáil

infreastruchtúr iontu. People are moving into these houses now, but those things are not there. They are told the infrastructure will come five or ten years down the road, but they are in their homes right now. In Clongriffin alone, hundreds of additional apartments are coming, which … services for the residents will be delivered at the same pace? The people who have contacted my office are not opposed to housing. They are asking that we build sustainable communities

home and if someone living in it has respiratory problems, there is no choice as they have to be got out of the house to prolong their life. The defective concrete crisis has its tentacles in every aspect of daily life in Donegal. What the Government … goes right across the spectrum of every aspect of our lives. Crèches and schools are also affected. The Government underestimates just how much this crisis is a part of everyday life in Donegal. For example, there is an estate in Mountain Top in Donegal where every house

thank all Deputies across the House for their contributions to the debate. I will not disagree with many of the arguments they made. While some progress has been made recently, it is absolutely fair to say that the current level of access to dental and orthodontic services … people, with the right care in the right place at the right time. Along with the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, I again thank the Deputies across the House for their contributions and reiterate the Government's commitment to improving

Government colleagues. The first is that we are temporary custodians of the processes and standards that were built before our time in the House. The Ceann Comhairle is a constitutional officeholder who was elected by the Dáil. It is disproportionate to have a motion of confidence … speaking rights. Before the timeline had expired for those submissions to be made and for her to make an adjudication, a determination had been made by Members opposite. The second point is that as well as being temporary custodians of the standards of this House, we are also

House a number of times the need for space for indigenous SMEs to scale up. They are coming to me and other representatives around the country saying there is a shortage of industrial land and enterprise and employment zoned land. While I respect the right of planning authorities … Will it specifically call out the need to ensure there is sufficient industrial land as well as the more than necessary zoning of housing land

often divides when we talk about regulation. I believe in regulation but not overregulation. I believe in smart regulation. One side of the House appears to think that deregulation is a good thing; I do not. I believe in smart regulation and certainly not burdening SMEs or anybody … need to ensure that we do not provide lucrative contracts to companies that do not, for example, recognise trade unions; frustrate the right of people to join trade unions; that do not welcome the concept of collective bargaining - it is quite the opposite; they are actively hostile

have energy, we can do this, but right now we are blocking this efficiency. Currently, building regulations mandate separate metering for each apartment block, making shared rooftop incredibly difficult. This is not only an energy issue; this is a housing and cost-of-living issue. We need

creche. They are told it has been too expensive to fit out, it is because the developer wants to rezone it as a house and sell it as such or, most infuriatingly of all, there is no demand in the area for crèche spaces. As the Minister … They are not providing the right number of spaces. They are also often not providing the appropriately designed buildings. When I was in the Minister's role, I put in place a process to address this to get the Department of housing to draft newer, stronger guidelines

DART+ South West. It has planning permission. It is pretty much on track with DART+ West but it does not have the funding right now. A decision is coming up for the Government soon, and I appeal to it not to drop the ball on this. DART+ South … Dublin is another huge growth area. Thousands of additional houses have been added in the past five years and the area could really benefit from public transport. The Dunsink plan cannot work without a new public transport link. Right now, the Luas green line extension to Tyrrelstown

will have is more cases before the courts. Families who are deeply frustrated are now taking to the courts to vindicate their rights. We are going to have more cases. The longer the Minister delays the more cases we will have, and the more delays we will have … certainty. We can legislate in this House and families would not be forced to go to the courts. It is at huge personal cost and huge stress for individuals to go to the High Court to try to vindicate their rights to get protections for their family, very

action must be taken. We have to get it right and we are not going to do that with the approach that has been taken to date. This is eco-austerity. Sinn Féin has repeatedly warned the House from the very beginning that the Government's approach could … reality of what people are dealing with in the cost-of-living crisis is that families are being crushed. The balance is not right and Government is completely out of touch. We have the highest electricity prices in the European Union. While households are being fleeced, giant data

provided significant costed budgetary proposals that would help people in the here and now. I do not think any of us in this House can justify raising taxes or increasing the price of petrol, diesel or home heating oil on ordinary working people any further in the midst … country are at absolute breaking point. People are doing everything right. They are working, paying their taxes and trying to provide for their families, but they are still falling behind as costs of fuel, groceries, energy and housing continue to put pressure on household budgets. That is where

about grants, say, for home adaptations and things like that. It is the case a majority of the time that those grants for housing adaptations do not necessarily fit for these very people. Research commissioned by the Government has demonstrated that the additional cost of disability can amount … often do not have the right answer for the people who are there. The solution, however, has been given to the Minister about getting rid of the means test for carer's allowance. Disability policy cannot be treated in isolation from housing, healthcare, transport or energy policy

Ireland, has underlined on numerous occasions that the protection of fundamental rights of LGBTQI+ people in Türkiye remains a major concern. The rights of peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of expression, including for LGBTQI+ persons, need to be fully respected. I was unaware of the protest … Europe House. It is very timely. I note the four general calls that the protesters are making, and I stand in full support of that. We will continue our call on the authorities of Türkiye to ensure that all proceedings against LGBTQI+ organisations, activists and human rights defenders

three or four decades with a company, are left high and dry. There is more work to be done in terms of workers' rights. We need to get to a living wage in this country. We have a minimum wage but we need to go further on that … dealt with, the person had an employment pension and the State pension. That individual struggled, but managed to keep going until being housed by the local authority, but many employees and former employees will not have that. It is important that the pension scheme be advanced. The Minister

clear message. When the Irish people who elect them to this House need them to step up, they have a duty to act. When people are struggling, TDs have a duty to do what is right, which is backing Sinn Féin's motion. Scrap the carbon tax from

would support. I have been on the record of this House for many years saying that we need to support research across the full technology readiness level, TRL, spectrum from discovery and frontier research right through to applied. Of course, applied research has a really strong place

being done and we need an emergency response. The Tánaiste is right that the hearings were held in December but the committee only launched its report this morning. What has happened since December? Rents and house prices have continued to rise, homelessness records have been broken over

great to have this debate in the House. As the Minister of State knows, fishing is a very important industry for County Louth. It is a working industry, from Carlingford Lough right up to Port Oriel and at all the small landing points along our coast. These businesses

this does not mean that Uisce Éireann is off the hook. For instance, in communities where water infrastructure has reached its limit, new housing development stalls, forcing locals to relocate. It creates ripple effects on our schools, shops and GAA clubs as families move and demographics shift. There … Inistioge, a village right beside me, where raw sewage is entering the River Nore and nothing has been done about it. In Mullinavat in south Kilkenny the treatment plant is at full capacity. It urgently needs to be upgraded to allow housing and commercial interests to thrive

dying as we speak. I know all of us in this House share the same fundamental commitment to human dignity, justice and the protection of innocent life. We all believe that everyone has a basic right to live free from violence, oppression and fear, but simply holding that

reforms announced today of the rental sector will strengthen the rights of new and existing tenants in Irish society. That is a central part of the reform. Those reforms have been informed by the Housing Agency review which, of course, stemmed from the Housing Commission report which

Defence headquarters only a couple of weeks ago. Deputy Smith is right to pay tribute to the Civil Defence, particularly in the year of its 75th anniversary. All of us on all sides of the House thank the volunteers for what they do. The Deputy will have seen

presidential election. The housing crisis is increasing at pace. Fianna Fáil's own backbenchers are rare and savage over it. The Taoiseach has disappeared to a conference he does not even need to be at. Simon Harris does a pivot again to the right and starts to scapegoat … never very convinced by Simon Harris's liberal foray on repeal any way. I think he is in more comfortable territory right now. We need to say a couple of things. The vast majority in international protection do not want to be in this country. Let us start