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National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Let us be positive starting off. We know the Bill is going to unlock the €1.5 billion announced in the budget for the tertiary education sector over the period mentioned, up to 2030. That is welcome and you have to commend the investment. I welcome that it is continually updating previous schemes. Ostensibly, it is trying to...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In the spirit of my predecessor, I am also going to play the ball and not the man. This is an issue about scoliosis and spina bifida treatment. It is about what we learned yesterday at the presentation organised by Senator Tom Clonan, the heartbreak that was caused by the systemic failure of successive Governments and Children's Health Ireland, but also before the existence of Children's...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Increasingly, I have had constituents get on to me about multiple bus lane violations and pedestrian traffic light violations where kids are crossing and cars continue to go through the lights. There are fewer members of the Garda Síochána per head of population since 2008, although the numbers have been increasing. We have a Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, formerly the...

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I express my solidarity and thanks to Deputy Ward for bringing the motion before the House. He has done exactly what he said he would do. He is the 100% Redress Party representative, and he is using every opportunity he can to get 100% redress. It is great to see other Members, from the west and north west, in particular, showing support and solidarity today. As someone who is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. It appears that on the one hand, we have very welcome EU legislation for registration that makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, we have the Government and the Department of housing trying to crack down on people making a fast buck in urban areas when there is a housing crisis. They are both worthy things, but where they are meeting seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Just as normal planning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Okay. In one sense it should be a continuation of use, but that is just being pedantic. Going back to what Senator Fitzpatrick said on the areas, the CSO has small area maps. One could easily use those small area maps to say that an area is exempt or not exempt. What a person has to do is to try to arrange a pre-planning meeting with very busy planning consultants in a local authority to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Are we waiting on separate legislation on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I have another context question. It relates to two things. One is the people who have bought a holiday home down the country, which they use. Perhaps a couple of families have contributed to house and they use it during the summer, at Easter, at Hallowe'en or whatever, but at other times the house is left idle. They are not trying rent it out for commercial purposes but the house has to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: That needs to be clearly described surely, both in legislation and in any instruments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Or next door to the family home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Surely the rules should reflect the situation on the ground. I have one final question. Why did Fáilte Ireland not have a derogation for people in towns like Killarney and Tralee with over 10,000 in population that historically for decades have been letting out properties? Why not start it from day one to stop people trying to make a commercial killing by renting it out? There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Did they say they would give Bord Fáilte that clarity?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the Regional Assemblies (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Fáilte ar ais chuig Ms Coughlan. I apologise for being in and out of the meeting. While I did not hear the presentations, I read through them while others were making their contributions. There were a couple of points. Some of it is revisiting what we discussed with Ms Coughlan at an earlier point. My first question is slightly slanted. Does Ms Coughlan think the regions are...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the Regional Assemblies (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Would Ms Coughlan choose to keep it at three regions?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the Regional Assemblies (15 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I am talking more about the perception.

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Today Senator Tom Clonan hosted a briefing on the challenges still facing children with scoliosis and spinal bifida. While we look at this area again in its own right, I reiterate my support for a full public inquiry on the whole scandal regarding the treatment of children awaiting scoliosis operations and related treatments, covering the entire lifespan of Children's Health Ireland but also...

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. As others have said, it is a little bit of tweaking to keep us going until next year. As the Minister said, it will allow sufficient headroom to continue lending to mid-2026, after which there could be a new national housing plan and a new national development plan. We know that the €13.5 billion threshold is a holding...