Ireland is considered a tax haven internationally. Ireland is considered to be in the top ten tax havens internationally at the moment. That has happened because the Government has depended too much on corporation taxes and breaks in corporation taxes to attract foreign direct investment. We should be spending more time investing in infrastructure, including transport, ICT and educational infrastructure. We should be spending more time trying to keep the inputs and costs to business low. These are the ingredients t…

It is wrong that we have tenants living on the same street who are being treated differently. We should be able to recognise that. It is wrong that people in certain communities receive a financial advantage over others who are in the same accommodation scenarios as they are. I am aware of a mother, for example, who has three children with autism. They live on the third floor of a block of flats in a town. She is in big trouble - a crisis situation - trying to raise her kids in that scenario. She is on the housing …

Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille seo. Is deas an rud é an Bille a fheiceáil. Bhí m’ainm ar Bhille cosúil leis seo roimhe seo freisin. Is iontach an rud é go mbeidh guth na Gaeltachta le cloisteáil arís istigh go daonlathach san údarás. Tá sé sin an-tábhachtach ar fad. Tá níos mó eolais ag muintir na Gaeltachta ná aon duine eile mar gheall ar na dúshláin atá os a gcomhair agus na deiseanna atá ann dóibh freisin. Tá sé dochreidte gur baineadh an guth sin uathu mar gheall ar an easpa daonlathais atá sa chóras anois. Cait…

Gabhaim buíochas le Páirtí an Lucht Oibre as ucht an rúin seo. Is rún maith é agus is mian liom tacaíocht a thabhairt dó. I want to raise a couple of serious issues that are affecting both carers and people with disabilities. The children's disability service grant was announced with great fanfare by the then Minister of State, Anne Rabbitte, in October 2023. This grant was to urgently provide services and therapies for children and was to be allocated within weeks. We were told that 52 organisations around the cou…

It is in office since 2016.

Most Garda divisions now have fewer front-line officers than this time last year. That is a shocking headline currently throughout the country. In the 560 Garda stations that exist, the number has fallen from 12,045 gardaí to 11,928 gardaí. In County Waterford, the number of gardaí has fallen by 24. In counties Louth, Cavan and Monaghan, the number of gardaí has fallen by 48. In counties Roscommon and Longford, the number of gardaí has fallen by 22. In Meath, my own county and the county with the lowest number of g…

That is not gardaí.

The Taoiseach has a more positive disposition than anybody living in those towns without a Garda station, in reality. The Garda Inspectorate report on public order policing that he mentioned was published seven years ago. I have asked numerous Ministers for Justice if the recommendations of that report have been implemented. Three months after I asked the former Minister for Justice, Deputy Helen McEntee if they had been implemented, I got an answer to a parliamentary question, which stated that she did not know th…

Gardaí are taken out of Garda stations and put into a public order unit for a period.

When will the Government implement the recommendations of the Garda Inspectorate report in full?

I am talking about the 2019 Garda Inspectorate report that the Taoiseach mentioned.

They have not been implemented.

No.

He has briefed me in response to a parliamentary question.

You are mistaken.

Will you implement it?

It is 110 days since the general election. This Dáil has sat for 17 days, which is incredible. For 85% of the time since the general election, this Dáil has been off. This is a legislature that cannot legislate. This is a democratically elected parliament that cannot deliver legislation because there are no committees due to the dysfunction here. I wish to propose an amendment under Standing Order 33(3) to the Order of Business to the effect that the Dáil should an extra day this week and an extra day next week in …

That is one month not three months.

Seventeen days even for the Taoiseach that must be a record.

There are seven wind turbines.