genocide.
I am shocked that I am the first person today to raise this. No leaders of the Opposition raised this during Leaders' Questions. Indeed, today, during Taoiseach's questions, I am the first one to raise it.
I ask what the Taoiseach's comment
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developers. There is the opportunity cost and the missed investment in this.
It is so frustrating to listen to the Taoiseach during Leaders' Questions go on about how we in the Social Democrats are against the private sector and how the State is doing
would choose the other things because we have to keep this country safe. The Deputy only asked me about tariffs once at Leaders' Questions. He never wants to discuss the economy or the global headwinds that the country faces. We have to keep our country safe. There
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change things is faux outrage. We can all see through it.
One of the favoured phrases that I hear every week at Leaders' Questions, particularly from An Taoiseach, is that we do not have ownership of compassion. No, we do not. However, the Government has the power
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airspace, the Tánaiste went on "The Late Late Show" and said he did not think Irish airspace was being used. I asked a Leaders' Question and gave him a dossier to prove that. I got a letter after that from the Minister for Transport stating that an examination
party motion and debate regarding the flotilla. We have changed Standing Orders today in a very rare step to suspend normal Leaders' Questions and Questions on Policy or Legislation, QPL, to discuss the situation. All of that is appropriate considering the gravity of the situation. The Government will
cannot be lost on us what we have done here today, in terms of adapting Leaders' Questions to deal with this issue. I commend the Government Chief Whip on allowing this today. I cannot remember a precedent for this, given all the crises we have had before
urging successive Governments to do for years? Pre-budget kite-flying in newspapers last weekend, as well as the Taoiseach's comments on Leaders' Questions yesterday, indicate that, unfortunately, it will be the former. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Calleary, intends to increase the income disregards
Mallow and Cork North-Central.
I was disturbed, upset and perturbed when I heard the leader of the Labour Party last week on Leaders' Questions. She was very much at odds with her backbenchers. She objected to the building of roads and took umbrage with the Government
thank Deputy Nash for raising this matter. When I was preparing for Leaders' Questions here today, part of me thought it was unlikely that I would get a question about the Government spending too much money. I am really glad that the Deputy has raised this because
They are facing tax barriers to even just allowing for that worker-management model within normal businesses. Earlier this afternoon, I spoke on Leaders' Questions and Questions on Policy or Legislation to ask about the multi-annual funding that so many organisations in our civil society are crying
very much. We might look at the tenant in situ scheme. I am trying to square what Deputy Bacik said yesterday during Leaders' Questions, because the criteria in the circular I introduced earlier in the year put the focus on local authorities to prioritise families. The Deputy criticised
Before we move on to Leaders' Questions, it has to be noted that I sat next to the Minister, Deputy Burke, during the debate. He offered full respect to each and every one of the Opposition speakers without interrupting once, yet in the single ten-minute slot
your service. You are a treasure and everybody wishes you the very best.
Under Standing Order 38, we will now proceed with Leaders' Questions. I call Deputy McDonald
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nothing further to be considered by it. I raised this issue previously in July when the Minister, Deputy Chambers, was standing in at Leaders' Questions. He indicated he would raise this with the Minister. My question then and now is whether the Minister considered the matter concluded regarding
bills in the here and now. We did not need to wait for any budget or for the Deputy to stand up on Leaders’ Questions and ask us to do it; we took the decision and have implemented it, and that makes a difference to people’s bills
Chamber a number of times since last December and I have heard people say things and make statements. I have heard them use Leaders' Questions as a forum to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. It is not acceptable and people, if they do not, should know a hell
Welcome back everyone. Before I take Leaders' Questions, I would like to make a short statement. In recent times, we have witnessed an alarming rise in the serious threats and online abuse directed at a significant number of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas of all parties
incredible 13 and a half years for psychology in the same area. It shocked primary care clinicians when the Taoiseach claimed during Leaders' Questions in July that a recruitment embargo had not been applied to these services. An embargo certainly was employed from November 2023 to July
half years for psychology in Galway and, incredibly, up to 13 and a half years for psychology in Dublin. Astonishingly, during Leaders' Questions this week, the Taoiseach denied that there had been any recruitment embargo in primary care services. Does the Tánaiste accept that he was misled
weekend were of the young people and the mentality of the young people having suffered what they had suffered. Yesterday, during Leaders’ Questions, we discussed the occupied territories Bill. The Taoiseach talked how if it were not for media and social media, we would be blind to much
those in the NCSE, people working in schools and, above all, parents. However, what is happening is not acceptable. This is the last Leaders' Questions the Taoiseach is going to face. He cannot back up the commitment by the Minister for education that every child needing special education
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