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Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for a very interesting debate. It is very appropriate for this particular time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

James Browne: The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, sends her apologies as she cannot be here. I will give the response on the Minister's behalf. I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it gives me the opportunity to provide an update to the House on the current position and understanding regarding the recently announced closure of Newpark Academy of Music. Newpark Academy of Music is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education Policy (30 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

James Browne: I thank Deputy very much for raising this very important issue of the extension of access to the junior certificate school programme digital libraries to those schools that joined DEIS after 2022. The junior certificate school programme is a national programme sponsored by the Department of Education and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA. Introduced in 1996, it is a...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2024) See 20 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputies for their contributions. The introduction of the new pay-related jobseeker's benefit is a major reform of how we support jobseekers in Ireland and will bring us in line with our European neighbours. Pay-related benefit will provide a greater support to people who lose their jobs and find themselves in the position of dealing with that income shock while continuing to meet...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (30 May 2024)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Debate adjourned.

Message from Select Committee (30 May 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (30 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024) See 117 other results from this debate

Micheál Martin: I will talk to the Minister for housing in respect of this in the context of his relationship or engagement with local authorities on antisocial behaviour and how it is impacting on tenants, neighbours and so forth. We need to have resolute and robust procedures. Generally speaking, there are agreements and so on but they need to be enforced.

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024) See 89 other results from this debate

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste is being very defensive. Will he answer my question? No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (30 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (30 May 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not know whether the Minister of State has had a chance to review the transcript of the committee meetings but if he did, he would been disturbed at what emerged. It is very clear, and the testimony from Engineers Ireland was very concerning, that IS 465, which is the standard that underpins a multibillion euro redress scheme, the biggest redress scheme in the history of the State, is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I hate to sound like a broken record but a lot of what I am going to say was said during the debate on the previous question. The more the Minister’s critics decry the interventions he is making, the more it proves he is going in the right direction. We have spoken previously about the relevant figures. When he came into office, there had been a decade of undersupply. We did not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024) See 12 other results from this debate

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response and acknowledge the good work in this area. I agree with him that there is great potential to provide homes for people in buildings that already exist, which is the easiest approach. Is there a register of vacant and derelict properties in each local authority? If so, are they publicly available? Does the Department have access to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024) See 39 other results from this debate

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The majority of Deputies from Cork city and county would attest to that. To be fair, the councils have been trailblazers in the delivery of units. I commend them on the work they are doing and I wish them continued success in the years ahead. It is, however, incumbent on me to reiterate to the Minister that while many of the things we have said are positive, be it the exemptions for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (30 May 2024) See 36 other results from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: You are the Minister and homelessness is rising.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (30 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024) See 26 other results from this debate

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking the Minister of State about early stage finance to get the affordable purchase homes we need. He is not answering. He clearly cannot answer and the Minister who can answer is sitting beside him and will not answer the question, which is completely unacceptable. I will read from correspondence sent to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, recently by the Ó Cualann Cohousing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: Not only is the Minister's response delusional, it is positively Orwellian in its attempt to describe a report that is critical of the Government as somehow endorsing it. In fact, the Minister has provoked the ire of one of the commission members, Mr. Michael O'Flynn, who was on the "Today with Claire Byrne" show last week. Not only has he been deeply disappointed by the Government's...