Results 17,381-17,400 of 26,293 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Prisoner Welfare (4 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to enhance inter-agency arrangements to ensure that accommodation, welfare and health supports for prisoners are in place prior to their release. [50516/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to strengthen the existing housing-led approach in Dublin and extend it to other urban areas focusing on persistent rough sleepers and long-term homeless households. [50517/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (4 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to examine and analyse the reason offers of accommodation are not taken up by households in emergency accommodation in hotels. [50518/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to extend the Threshold tenancy protection service nationwide. [50521/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (4 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out a national awareness campaign targeted at families and persons at risk of losing their homes. [50522/19]
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not have a script.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Not yet.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills, and the Government is lucky that it is still here.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills in a year.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I respect the right of the Member to speak. I did not interrupt her colleague. I am stating my own opinion and the opinion of thousands of other people across this country. That is the reality of it. In the first few minutes of this debate the Social Democrats, others and the Government have engaged in a blame game, the Taoiseach having given us a history of former housing Ministers and...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: We have said that and the public will get an opportunity to see that. Nobody watching this debate believes that it would be beneficial for this country to plunge itself into a general election in Christmas week or shortly thereafter, in advance of another Brexit deadline of 31 January. The public are not on the side of the Social Democrats on this motion. Others have jumped on the...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin has presided over the pulling down of the Government in the North of Ireland, such that it has not sat for three years. There is also the matter of the record of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland on housing. Deputy Ó Broin's book is a partitionist book because he never referred in it to Sinn Féin's track record on housing in the North of Ireland. I read it but it...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin walked away from its responsibilities in the North. They are the facts. What Fianna Fáil will not do-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Yes.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Unfortunately, that is the truth and the track record of Sinn Féin in the North.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Fianna Fáil has put the national interest first by sticking with a confidence and supply arrangement that, frankly, in many instances has not suited and has been difficult to do politically. In doing so, we have put country ahead of narrow party political gain and that is what we will continue to do. The public will get an opportunity early in the new year to review what each party is...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Early next year the public will be insisting that parties and those who put themselves forward for election show them what they would do differently. Fianna Fáil will put home ownership at the centre of the solution to the housing crisis, increase social housing build and control rents such that people will have a safe and secure home for themselves and their families.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)
Darragh O'Brien: I would like to share time with Deputies Casey and Cassells.