Results 9,521-9,540 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----the Government has in place to help people to buy their own home, all of which Sinn Féin opposed, including the first home and the help-to-buy schemes. It even opposed the vacancy grant. I inform them of cost rental, the new form of tenure in Ireland where tenants-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----are in place now paying rents that are not driven by the market or profits.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I tell them we are doing everything we can to ensure that no person ends up homeless.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: If there was any doubt that the Deputies opposite are using the current challenges for their own political benefit-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----we only need to look at the misinformation they are spinning around the tenantin situ scheme, most notably, Deputy Ó Broin two weeks ago. They continue to cite Dublin City Council only purchasing seven homes under the scheme. They use that figure over and over, despite the council explaining clearly that it is examining a further 382 for purchase right now.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputies know as well as that when purchasing a home, the buyer goes through conveyancing-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----but they will use the figure of seven and they know it is not true.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: They know this-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----but they are either confused or happy to mislead, and I believe it is the latter. On the wider picture about supply - and the Deputies did not like this either - in 2022, 30,000 homes were completed, which was up 45.2% on the previous year.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: In 2022, we exceeded the Housing for All target by 5,251.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: In January of this year, figures indicate the construction of more than 2,100 residential homes. This is the highest number of commencement notices received in the month of January.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: There were more than 25,000 first-time buyers and more than 1,200 approvals under the first home scheme.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: What will Deputy Ó Broin do?
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: What will Deputy Ó Broin do? He will say we are spending €4 billion per year on delivering on social and affordable housing-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is much more than the €2.8 billion that Sinn Féin put forward in its cobbled together plan.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy believes he can deliver more HAP homes with less money; simply, he cannot. All of us in this House, whether in government or opposition and whether some like it or not, have a responsibility to help resolve it, not to capitalise on it,
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----not to manipulate it, not to sow division----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----not to delay or use any tactic to avoid supporting legislation, like they did just before Christmas-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that would fast-track delivery of the social homes. That is what all of us in Government want. That is what Government is doing.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 5: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — the Government agreed on 7th March that the 'winter emergency period' under the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Act 2022 would come to an end on 31st March, 2023, with deferred tenancy terminations taking effect...