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- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It is nothing short of disgraceful.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order, I was given ten minutes to respond to a Sinn Féin motion. I moved a countermotion. Every single statement I made has been strategically interrupted by the Deputies opposite. I will not be shouted down. This is a parliamentary democracy. People are elected to speak in the House. The Deputies opposite will not shout me down. They should not interrupt me. I did...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is a big charge.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is a big charge.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The record stands.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Excuse me, guys.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: In conclusion-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: In the interests of trying to continue an orderly debate, not one thing I said today-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----in all of my contributions is untrue. If the Deputy wants to stand up and say that Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors have not objected to homes - we have the list - produce the facts.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin can ask Deputy Louise O'Reilly about her own councillor in north Dublin.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: This is a serious issue and I am going to take it very seriously.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I would not dream of it. I have respect for this House.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — Budget 2024 delivered a record €5.1 billion in capital investment in housing made up of €2.6 billion in exchequer funding, €978 million for the Land Development Agency (LDA) and €1.5 billion for Housing Finance Agency (HFA) funding;...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----right the way across the country. Deputy Louise O'Reilly is my good colleague in Dublin Fingal where there is one of the largest social and affordable housing sites in the country at Ballymastone, Donabate, and work is under way. Her own party colleague in Fingal County Council objected to it and voted against it.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Colleagues opposite may, God forbid, get the opportunity to be in a position whereby they will have the responsibility to deliver but they cannot come into the Dáil and say one thing and then out in their own constituencies go out and do completely the contrary. That is what is happening time and time again.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt Deputy Ó Broin once.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy wants to critique his comments, and there is so much within them that is incorrect, I will. I have not interrupted the Deputy one bit.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Let us look at Oscar Traynor Road. Work has started on that site to deliver hundreds of homes there for people. Sinn Féin actively opposed the Oscar Traynor Road site-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----and actively opposed O'Devaney Gardens as well.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I will let the Deputy come back with his response later and maybe he will put on the record what his councillors did in Fingal-----