Dáil debates

Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

12:55 pm

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome what I consider to be a very positive and sound response from the Taoiseach. It certainly will be relayed to the management of Kerry County Council. When we are talking about statistics, I like to humanise them. We have 770 males and 422 females. We have 336 females with a dependant and 98 males with a dependant. We have 165 couples. We have 298 couples with dependants or two or more adults with or without dependants. These are all people who need housing and that is why it is right for us to raise the issue here today and to talk about it.

I use the opportunity to thank several people who go above and beyond the call of duty every day in our local authority. I refer to the people who work in our housing department, including the clerk of works who oversees projects on the ground, the engineers working in the housing department, and the ladies and men who deal with the processing of housing applications, disabled persons grants, essential repair grants and mobility aids grants. They know every day when they answer the phone, they are dealing with a human being who needs help. I thank the workers in the housing department in Kerry County Council. I also compliment the private contractors, their foremen, workers, subcontractors and tradesmen who work to very high standards and whose work also deserves to be recognised.

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