We will deal with those amendments under section 2. We will proceed and conclude section 1.

Is section 1 agreed?

The Taoiseach is deflecting.

You had one job to do and you did not do it.

It is disrespect to the Rotunda.

It was within your power to do something about it and you did not do it.

I move That leave be granted to introduce Bill entitled an Act to improve the efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability of household waste collection services throughout the functional areas of local authorities; to provide for a scheme for the waiver of household waste collection charges on grounds of personal hardship; to enable local authorities to make provision by bye-laws relating to the duty of landlords in respect of the presentation of household waste by their tenants; for these purposes to amend the …

I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

I raise concerns about the accountability and oversight of the school building programme, specifically with regard to one project management company contracted by the Department of education. KSNPM has been paid over €27 million by the State over the past six years. I am dealing with three schools that KSNPM is supposed to be looking after. In one school, it left behind a botched, half-done job. In another school, it left without ensuring the works were complete. In the third school, it left a school building site …

I have raised this with the Department.

Since the announcement was made last June of the proposed changes to take effect, the Minister, Deputy Browne, and the Government have unleashed havoc upon thousands of renters out there who are now facing notices to quit. In the third quarter of last year, 5,400 tenants received a notice to quit. That is up from about 3,000 in the previous year. For the people who are coming through my clinics in Dublin Central, it is really distressing because they have nowhere to go. We have spoken at length about the extortiona…

In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time this evening.

I want to express my dismay over the pausing of the DART+ project. It is a retrograde step for communities in the Minister’s constituency, mine and the greater Dublin area. I want to talk about health infrastructure. The €9.25 billion allocation is simply not adequate when one considers the digitalisation programme, the National Maternity Hospital and the beds that need to be delivered. The Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has spoken about the need to do something very real in Limerick, yet the money i…

I have to plead with the Taoiseach to stop the rent reset that is going to be contained in the residential tenancies Bill. Since he made the announcement last year, he has unleashed havoc on thousands of renters out there who are facing a notice to quit this spring. This has been presented as short-term gain in terms of higher rents and evictions in order to get the longer term gain of greater supply. It is utter nonsense. This is not some sort of diet. These are people's homes and they have nowhere to go. There ar…

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I thank Sinn Féin for this important and very timely motion on emergency mental health services. It is very timely because we are all acutely aware of the sheer level of demand that is there for mental health services and we know all too well of the lapses in timely care and the devastating consequences when there are those lapses in care. Far too many are being failed by the lack of 24-7 care and of appropriate space within our hospitals. It is unacceptable that assessments are taking place in inappropriate emerge…

That means there are significant gaps across the country so we need to see it for the model 3 hospitals also. It is great if it is going to happen next year. The other key issue I want to raise is in regard to the assertive outreach or on-street mental health teams. Again, it is a really important provision within the community. When we submitted parliamentary questions on this, the replies indicate there are huge gaps across the country. There are no assertive outreach or on-street mental health teams in Waterford…

It is profoundly depressing and frankly outrageous to read the Government’s counter-motion this morning – a motion that cannot even bring itself to acknowledge the problems of congestion and chaos on our roads. It is a motion that does not even make a single reference to remote and flexible work. We have to ask how in touch the Government is when we see the dismissal of people’s very real needs and concerns. These are problems that the Government has brought on itself. The congestion on our roads is one of the many…

The planning permission for the project in Clonshaugh has gone through and the judicial review has been withdrawn. We need to ensure there is no impediment to the development of this vital project for the north side of Dublin, particularly for the 6,000 houses in my constituency of Dublin Central that rely on the development of this wastewater project. The issue I want to raise today is with regard to lead in our pipes. It is a significant issue in Dublin and in other parts of the country. The reality is that we ha…

I listened carefully to what the Taoiseach said at the start. He spoke about what Dublin City Council and the OPW are doing with regard to the Dublin task force, but we heard little or nothing about what the Government itself is doing. We still have no legal implementation body. We still have no budget funding, which was called for by the chair of the task force. There is a bitter irony here because others have spoken about The Complex. The task force report talks about the need to create a cultural hub. The Comple…