Results 281-300 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering plans to introduce an affordable rental and affordable purchase housing scheme for older people who are not entitled to social housing and want to right size after selling their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44383/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering plans to introduce an affordable rental and affordable purchase housing scheme for older people who are not entitled to social housing and want to right size after selling their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for people experiencing homelessness in Dublin in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1741. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the subject matter of departmental reports which are pending publication; and the timeline for publication of each of these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a progress report on the recommendations made in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 2024, to create a statutory appeal structure to allow for appeals and reviews of housing decisions made by local authorities;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on progress in respect of fulfilling the Government’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 2 (ending food poverty by 2030). [43586/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on plans to reduce wealth and income disparity and inequality in Ireland; and to provide a progress report in the context of the Government’s overall commitments to Sustainable Development Goal 10, specifically the commitment to reduce inequality within countries. [43587/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 1901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update in respect of fulfilling the Government’s commitment to SDG1 (ending poverty, including child poverty, by 2030); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44529/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 2147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering providing significant additional funding to the Ballymun Implementation Board, in a similar model to the NEIC Implementation Board, to address long-standing issues in Ballymun identified in the Montague Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 2382. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a crèche place for a child (details supplied) will be made available; to outline any interventions that can be made for the family; the steps being taken to address crèche place shortages in North Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 3478. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the Government’s plans to support communities where levels of deprivation remain high; and if he will outline said plans in respect of Ballymun, Finglas and Kilmore in Dublin. [43588/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Being honest with the people of Ireland?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I appreciate the Minster's detailed response. He did not answer my questions on the consultation with the institute of planners, the architects or the Irish Wheelchair Association. It is deeply regrettable that they clearly were not consulted and there was not proper engagement with them. If there had been there would be a different outcome to this, so it is deeply regrettable. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Ah, come on.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Grand. That is all right.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Mr. Lawlor continued: "We welcome meaningful, evidence-based reforms that support the accelerated, coordinated, and sustainable delivery of apartments and homes in communities across the country." The institute goes on to say: In particular, the erosion of unit mix requirements represents a market-led approach to housing that is fundamentally at odds with the significant work undertaken by...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have been deeply shocked by these regulations and these new standards the Minister is introducing. As an academic, I did research for years. One of the starting points of research, of course, is gathering evidence. Policy is supposed to be evidence-based. The evidence that has been presented to justify these decisions does not stack up. The Government has claimed it will lead to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Shoeboxes.