Results 81-100 of 289 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Today the Taoiseach said that rents are supposedly not going to increase but we know it is the case that rents will increase as a result of the measures brought in today by the Government. We are in the midst of an emergency that the Government accepts is an emergency, with rents higher than they have ever been in the history of the State - they are completely unaffordable and unsustainable...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Of course they can; they are doing it every day. How many evictions took place last year? There were thousands and thousands of evictions. They can evict a tenant through the sale of the property to a family member. Landlords are already on the radio saying that they are leaving properties vacant for two years so they can charge the market rent. They now know that next March, they will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Until their tenancy ends.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: When is a rent too high?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: You are going to have to do more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the members of the Housing Commission who are present. It is great to have them here. I have gone through the report in detail and it is very interesting from an academic, political and social point of view. It is a pity there has not been more engagement with it. While I clearly would not agree with a certain amount in it, there is much that I do agree with. I have many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Why is that? What has been set out is obviously significant and comprehensible and calls for a radical reset, but what are the officials afraid of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is Professor Norris referring to what is implied by the ticked boxes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The obvious thing is to ask the commission members whether they would be willing to continue if asked again to continue monitoring and implementing. While I disagree with some of the witnesses, I believe they have provided something excellent. The amount of time and work they put in is incredible and there is so much in it that the obvious thing is to bring the commission back again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Mr. O'Flynn and I have different points of view on what a public construction company could do and I do not think he needs to fear it as much as he thinks he needs to. Do the witnesses want to refer to the question about interest in the market, the question of the minority report?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering introducing national drone regulations in addition to the EU regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30713/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering introducing drone-free designations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering introducing no-fly zones for drone usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering introducing night flight restrictions for drone usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 772. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new traveller specific accommodation units delivered in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 789. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new Traveller-specific accommodation units delivered, by local authority area, in each of the years 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 790. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the Traveller-specific accommodation unit delivery targets, by local authority area, in each of the years 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that, when assessing people for homelessness and access to emergency accommodation, local authorities are applying a local connection protocol (details supplied) which has no basis in law; if he will direct the County and City Management Association to withdraw this protocol, given the serious legal and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 855. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing Housing First with wraparound supports to a single adult experiencing long-term homelessness; the estimated cost of expanding the Housing First programme to the 2,245 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation, and to include in that cost the provision of wraparound...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 856. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 9 of the Annual Progress Report 2025 that is designated for the construction of new-build social housing units; the number of new social homes this allocation is expected to deliver; if this figure includes the cost of service provision; and if he will make a statement on...