Results 41-60 of 289 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has recently engaged with the Road Safety Authority in respect of any new large-scale public information campaign that could be carried out to ensure proper use of e-scooters and to increase the public’s knowledge of existing rules around proper use of e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34293/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Central Bank housing figures, out today, show with terrifying clarity the housing disaster that the Government’s policies have created. Not only did the Government mislead the public in the election by stating 40,000 homes would be built last year but it will not reach anywhere near 40,000 homes this year or next year. It is also pulling the plug on social housing projects due to...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I speak in favour of the amendments as put forward. The Minister is trotting out this line, as the Taoiseach has, that we have no solutions. That is utter crap and he knows it. I have emailed him with the homes for Ireland State savings scheme proposal. It is not correct that we have not put forward solutions. He might disagree with them-----

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: -----but it is not true that we have not put them forward. The Minister can mutter under his breath-----

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: We have put forward solutions. The Social Democrats has put forward a number of solutions. I have written books on it. To say we have not put forward solutions is just untrue. The Minister should be more honest and say he disagrees with our proposals and on what is put forward and outline why. There is a hole in the Minister's argument. We are separating what has been brought forward...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Okay. That is what the Government has set out. When a tenant leaves the property and a new tenant comes in, the rent will be able to increase to market rent. That is one of the Government's clear incentives. It is not true for the Government to say it is protecting renters, because those new renters who are trying to find properties have to then pay the market rent. That is where this...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is very hard to listen to this, with the level of homelessness we have.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: This legislation, extending rent pressure zones to the rest of the country, is something the Social Democrats have called for before. We will not be opposing it. As part of the wider legislative changes the Government is proposing, however, we are deeply concerned about significant aspects of it. It is quite a cruel move to give renters around the country who will have an RPZ for six or...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: An issue that is particularly important for my constituency of Dublin North West but affects the entire city is the MetroLink. Ireland is one of the richest countries in the EU, but Dublin is the only large western capital city that does not have a metro. The metro was first promised in 2005, some 20 years ago. It was ditched in 2010 by Fine Gael, so we are still waiting for the metro....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Minister of State for his response and engagement on this matter. To iterate the scale of this crisis of mould, damp and poor conditions, it was seven years ago that the European Committee of Social Rights found the Irish State to be in violation of human rights and failing to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure the right to housing of an adequate standard for families...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I wish to discuss housing maintenance, in particular the impact of mould and damp on tenants of social housing in my constituency and throughout the country. It is an area I have worked in for almost two decades in an academic capacity doing research on the impact of mould and damp on residents and tenants and working with communities. Mould and damp are endemic across social housing in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from the family of a child at risk of losing out on an appropriate school place in the coming academic year; if she will provide a definitive timeline for the new classes in the school in question to be completed; if she will account for the apparent delays in the...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have been extremely critical. The Minister has withdrawn funding from public-private partnership developments.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: We need funding for those schemes to deliver housing.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The motion is a very important one. It is putting forward solutions. We have heard criticism directly from the Taoiseach regarding the lack of solutions, but they are there, we have put them forward and we are putting them forward again tonight. The Opposition parties are bringing this motion to highlight that this housing crisis is no longer just a crisis. In fact, it has not been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: My first questions are for the Housing Agency. According to its analysis of the rent measures, average rents will rise. Could Mr. Whelan give an estimate of how much the agency sees average rents rising by in the next three to five years as a result of the new measures? When does it see rents falling as a result of the new measures? What is the agency's estimate of how many affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Based on that analysis, the Housing Agency still expects average rents to rise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does the Housing Agency have any plans to do assessment of need for affordable housing?