Jerry Buttimer

The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), is our country’s primary social inclusion intervention. SICAP has 2 programme goals. Goal one is supporting communities, which involves supporting local community groups representing disadvantaged communities and…

Séamus McGrath

Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the status of the scoping stage for the Carrigaline flood relief scheme.

Séamus McGrath

Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the status of a minor flood mitigation works scheme at Lower Adamstown, Ballinhassig, County Cork.

Pádraig Rice

I welcome the families who are in the Gallery today. None of you should have to be here. None of you should have had to campaign and advocate on these issues for so many years. I know how much heart, soul and effort you have put in to try to get the truth here. It should not have…

Pádraig Rice

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, September was the worst September on record for hospital overcrowding. Facts matter in these debates. There is a permanent state of crisis in the accident and emergency departments. Some 70,000 people left an…

Séamus McGrath

I would appreciate if the Minister of State could go back to the Department and inject some urgency in closing out stage 1 of this project. I visited the school, and while the conditions there are unsuitable in terms of the space available, it provides outstanding educational…

Séamus McGrath

I thank the Cathaoirleach and thank all the officials. Like others, I want to start on a positive note about the programme. It has been very successful since it was rolled out and it is providing significant support to families across the country, particularly given the…

Séamus McGrath

I agree with everything that has been said. This is clearly a systemic problem across the board, given the range of hospitals included here. To see that figure of €37 million over a four year period is shocking. The one thing the HSE is not short of is administrators and the fact…

Séamus McGrath

Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the application for additional accommodation by a primary school (details supplied) in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Micheál Martin

The Government is committed to the delivery of a National Security Strategy in the coming months. Work is ongoing in finalising drafting the strategy, integrating inputs from a range of relevant stakeholders, including the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Defence…

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Earlier today at the RACO conference, the Minister suggested that people had put their trust in politicians to bring in changes in particular to the triple lock neutrality protection. That is despite the fact that no reference whatsoever was made to it in the Minister's own party…

Pádraig Rice

But they are going along with Fine Gael on this. Eroding our neutrality erodes our soft power and influence in the world. We have a place in the world where we can focus on peacebuilding and peacekeeping. That is crucial. That is the role the Irish people want us to have on the…

Micheál Martin

Today, I welcome to the Distinguished Visitors Gallery Sheila, Austin, Kieran and Oliver Stack, the wife and sons of the late chief prison officer, Brian Stack. They have campaigned tirelessly to uncover the truth of what happened to Brian in March 1983 and to keep his memory and…

Micheál Martin

I discussed the recent issues along with others with President Zelenskyy on Friday. I welcome the Deputy raising this issue because, to be fair, she is correct that Ukraine deserves our unwavering solidarity and support. I was extremely disappointed when the Sinn Féin Party and…

Séamus McGrath

I want to raise a local school project, namely, the Owenabue Educate Together National School in Carrigaline. I know it is a project that the Taoiseach is familiar with. It is currently operating in temporary accommodation across two buildings in Heron's Wood estate. Fourteen…

Pádraig Rice

I again raise the issue of healthcare workers with long Covid whose payments are about to be cut off and who have been repeatedly failed by the State. As the Taoiseach knows, I raised this previously and I wrote to him about this. This is a small group of workers who got Covid at…

Micheál Martin

I thank the Deputy for raising a very serious and important issue, particularly for those in the mid-west in terms of health services at University Hospital Limerick. I commend all the staff and all who work at all hospitals in the mid-west, including UHL, on the work they do. It…

Micheál Martin

I welcome the Deputy's contribution in respect of the 1,000 new units in Dundrum. She was at the event last week. It is a real demonstration of momentum in house building and of the role of the Land Development Agency. I do not believe we need two national building agencies. We…

Pádraig Rice

This is an important debate. I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing the Bill forward and allowing us to have this debate. It is probably the first time there has been a substantial debate in the Oireachtas around intersex, in particular, and non-binary issues in this way. That is…