Results 11,521-11,540 of 27,055 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Sorry.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Try to behave yourself, please.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I am stating a fact.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year Deputy Ó Broin said in this House that it was going to be a second mortgage, which was going to be at 6%, 7% or 8% interest. It is not a second mortgage. It is an equity stake that the State is taking to help the thousands of people the Deputy said he wants to help-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: That is just the usual trite nonsense Deputy Ó Broin goes on with. The fact of the matter is there is a scheme here-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Right now there are people paying rents above the level they should be paying. People are paying-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy tabled the motion. Does he want a debate or not? Will I sit down? The reality is I am about delivering policies that positively impact-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not going to continue to be shouted down. I certainly will not be bullied by the Deputy in this House. I should be allowed to respond, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have tabled a Government countermotion-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: He finds it difficult to contain himself.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not know I had that affect on the Deputy.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not sure about that either.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin is out of order.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I gave up on nobody. On a point of order-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Unfortunately a Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Through the Chair, absolutely. What I have attempted to do this evening is to put forward some of the policies that are taking hold and are working. I will try again to restate the facts. The first home scheme is going to help thousands of people who are in a rental trap and who have saved and are working hard to be able to own their own home at an affordable rate that is not a second...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that I have not been able to answer the charges that have been put forward by some of the Deputies opposite, but that probably suits them.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that this Government: — published its housing plan, Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland (Housing for All), in September 2021, with record levels of funding in place to support the delivery of the plan, and unprecedented guaranteed State investment of over...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that have been referenced here already. We are working with every tool available to us to drive down the numbers in homelessness. The approach to homelessness has to be housing-led. It has to be about increasing supply across all tenures - social housing, affordable housing, private housing and rental housing. Deputies have referenced the lack of rental housing on the market. Some...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: In Sinn Féin's most recent budget manifesto, the only proposal relating to rental properties was to add a €400 second home tax on individual landlords, the very mom and pop landlords Deputy Ó Broin says he wants to keep in the market. That was the Sinn Féin proposal. Let us get back to the facts. The reality is that housing is not a political game. Deputies should...