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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister acknowledges that there is an affordability problem. Mother of Jesus. He acknowledges that there is a viability problem. Does he know what the problem is? We have a Government problem. The people in Balbriggan are at the business end of a Government-sponsored problem. The average cost of rent in north County Dublin is €2,223. I asked the Minister a simple question:...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, and supported the people who said they were building 40,000 homes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: If the answer is "zero", the Minister could say it and sit down.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: He could just say "zero".

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental homes delivered in Balbriggan in each of the past five years. [53572/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is, as I generally try to make them, fairly straightforward. For the avoidance of any doubt, the question refers to delivery for the previous five years, specifically to the tenure of the Minister's predecessor. It was the same Government but a different Minister. Plans for the future do not need to be included in this. I just want the figure, which I suspect is quite a...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Not yet, a Cheann Comhairle.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that section 179(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005's criteria for when a relevant person shall be regarded as requiring full-time care and attention precludes many carers of neurodivergent people; if he is aware that this passage does not acknowledge the essential needs specific to...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward the motion. The Government knows well the difference between not opposing something and supporting something. The Minister is around long enough to know the nod in the direction of saying something is a good idea and actively and proactively working for it are two very separate things. I urge the Government to not just not oppose this motion, but...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Special Reports and Reviews on Social Protection and Rural Development Issues: European Court of Auditors (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for being with us this morning. I apologise in advance that I cannot stay for the entire duration of the meeting. I have to speak in the Dáil Chamber so I will have to go. Mr. Murphy referred to the powers the ECA has. It reviews and makes recommendations but ultimately the European Parliament or the Commission decides. It is good to review. Reviews are...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Special Reports and Reviews on Social Protection and Rural Development Issues: European Court of Auditors (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There should certainly be evidence that they existed.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Special Reports and Reviews on Social Protection and Rural Development Issues: European Court of Auditors (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: That is very worrying.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Special Reports and Reviews on Social Protection and Rural Development Issues: European Court of Auditors (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Murphy is saying it is impossible to trace the money and it appears there are far too many people in the European Union, of which we are part, accepting that it is impossible to chase the money. It strikes me that there is sometimes a lack of oversight and accountability, and you will hear that. If that oversight and accountability is happening it is not being conveyed. There is the...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Special Reports and Reviews on Social Protection and Rural Development Issues: European Court of Auditors (1 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Nobody said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Is there anyone else to blame?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome everyone to our meeting. There are some formal notices that I have to read out relating to privilege. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the place in which Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms O'Connor I can see from the way she spoke this is something she feels very passionately about. We thank her most sincerely for coming in this morning and sharing that with us. It helps us with our discussions. I will now open to members of the committee. I call Deputy Buckley.