Results 10,581-10,600 of 15,917 for speaker:Robert Troy
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: The Dáil could not start on time twice this week because there was no quorum.
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I was here for Questions.
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I was speaking the truth.
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: Facts.
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I thought the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality was to be called next.
- Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this motion. It was funny to hear the Chief Whip finishing his contribution by encouraging "the next Dáil and the next Government [to] follow the example we have set over the last five years by continuing to introduce reforms that improve the way our Parliament works". I certainly hope the next Government, regardless of its...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, are protecting the welfare of children sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation; and the care and in-reach plans being put in place for children who are in emergency accommodation. [3397/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: This question follows on from the previous one and asks the Minister how he and the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, are protecting the welfare of children who are sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation. What plans have they put in place to support these children and families, and will the Minister update the House on the matter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: The Minister is right in one thing: the best place for a child is in his or her home, but it is a damning indictment on his Government that 1,600 children are not residing in their homes; they are residing in emergency accommodation, and that is because of policies that this Government has pursued. I was truly shocked by the Minister's reply to a parliamentary question I submitted where he...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I remind the Minister that in 2013 a total of 20 families were becoming homeless in Dublin every month. In the last few months that has tripled to more than 60 families becoming homeless every month. Maybe I was living in a different universe, but I believe this Government was in power in 2013, and it certainly was in power in the last few months. I remind the Minister that in the four...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: I do not believe the Government is giving this issue the priority it deserves. We saw the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, last night out canvassing in his home town of Tipperary-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: -----when there was an important debate in this House on supporting families who are homeless, and in particular the 1,600 children who are homeless today.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: The Minister must not have read the banking inquiry report.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: Read the banking inquiry report, Minister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: There was no building on floodplains-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: It is the Minister's party that has been in power on the local authorities for the last ten years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: Yes, in Kildare.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: No, we did not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: The facts speak for themselves, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)
Robert Troy: It would be the first time the Minister ever answered the question.