Results 101-120 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put affordability central to housing policy; his plans to ensure the majority of new homes are genuinely affordable i.e. below current market prices and rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53908/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Government's new housing plan will be published. [54175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to amend the status of a HAP tenant as having their housing needs met when they are in receipt of HAP. [54176/25]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Potentially, those building and developing apartments, and let us say an apartment is potentially going for sale for €600,000 or €800,000, are getting €160,000 or €170,000 State subsidy per apartment. Will the Minister clarify that please?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Will the Minister answer the question?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I want to back up my colleague and others who have said that this is incredible. The Minister needs to explain the basis on which the decision was made to hand money over to developers and investor funds that are already building these homes. What is happening is illogical. What is the rationale behind it? We need an explanation. This involves significant amounts of public money. Is it...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I will speak to resolution No.4. In this reduction in the VAT rate, the Government is very clearly throwing us back to an Ireland that we thought we had left behind. It is the Ireland of crony deals and dig-outs for developers and the wealthy. I was wondering if Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael did some séance or bring out a Ouija board to design the budget? Did they conjure up the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has, in collaboration with other stakeholders including the Department of Health, carried out analyses of the capacity of public transport connections to Beaumont hospital; the other work, if any, his Department has carried out to explore the way in which demand for parking and private car access to the hospital may be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when the local authority acquisition figures for Q2 and Q3 2025 will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when the CAS acquisition figures for Q2 and Q3 2025 will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when the HAP figures for Q2 and Q3 2025 will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when the social and affordable housing delivery data for Q2 and Q3 2025 will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53880/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 551. To ask the Minister for Health in the context of healthcare reforms under Sláintecare and building the capacity of public hospitals, if her department is considering allocating funding for a positron emission tomography scanner for Beaumont Hospital’s campus in Raheny, Dublin; if not, if such considerations have taken place or will take place in the near future; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 552. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and support which will be provided to improve services and increase capacity at Beaumont hospital in the interim period before the new emergency department is operational; if she will provide a detailed outline of plans in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 553. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a progress report on the delivery of the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; if she will confirm that the current expected timeframe for its delivery and completion indicates a completion date before 2030; if she will provide the overall expected timeframe for the various stages of the project; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has, in collaboration with other stakeholders including the Department of Transport, carried out analyses of the capacity of public transport connections to Beaumont hospital; the other work, if any, her Department has carried out to explore the way in which demand for parking and private car access to the hospital may be reduced; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (7 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 583. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to update the long-term illness scheme to include asthma or eosinophilic asthma; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53045/25]

Developer Profits Transparency Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I am not sure if the Minister of State was baiting me in order to try to get me to go further, but I will try to remain on my best behaviour. Seriously, though, I am very disappointed with the Government's opposition to the Bill. What is particularly disappointing is the lack of serious engagement on the legislation. As my colleague outlined, we have put forward solutions. While the...

Developer Profits Transparency Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to move this Bill. I will start by thanking Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his parliamentary assistant, Jack Sweeney, and my own parliamentary assistant, Ellen O'Doherty, for their work on this Bill. It is a privilege to bring this Bill before the House on Second Stage; it is my first Bill before the Dáil. It is very...