Results 1-20 of 284 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I echo my colleagues' sentiments and statements on this. The people of Gaza do not have time left for this Government's dithering and delaying on the implementation of the occupied territories Bill. Seventeen thousand children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli genocidal regime. Right now, millions of people in Gaza are being starved to death. They are being shot and murdered while...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: We supported the extension of RPZs but not the increase in rents. We did not support that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he decided to withdraw funding for social housing PPP bundles shovel ready this week; and the measures he will take to ensure the 3,000 social homes planned as PPPs are going to be delivered in the original timeframe. [36246/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Minister will be well aware that he and his Department decided to withdraw funding for up to 500 social homes that were due to be delivered through public-private partnerships. Will he set out the rationale that underpins that decision and give detail on it? How many value for money assessments were undertaken before the final decision was made? Will he outline the measures to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: It has confounded and upset many people in communities where these social housing projects were due to be delivered. Two are in my constituency, Ballymun and Whitehall. These areas have high levels of social housing need. It is deeply upsetting and disappointing. Can the Minister guarantee they will be delivered according to the original planned timeframe? I wrote my PhD and a book 14...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Minister did not answer how many value for money assessments were undertaken before the final decision was made. How was it let get to this point where he now says it is too expensive? Public-private partnerships involve lifetime maintenance costs and not just the delivery cost. I have been heavily critical of this model of delivery of social housing. The Minister still has not...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: The failure to implement key parts of the EPSEN Act shows that, while we remain a republic that has a proclamation that sets out to cherish all children equally, we are a republic of inequality when it comes to children with additional needs and children from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are not getting the education they have a constitutional right to and all the broad elements that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Uisce Éireann and the ESB for coming in. We know there is a lack of investment in and delivery of critical infrastructure for housing. This has been building up for years. What do the witnesses think needs to change to ensure that critical infrastructure - water and electricity - does not delay or limit housing development? The second question is to both organisations, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I want to get the sense of emergency out there as well and we have talked about this before. A period of two or three years has been mentioned. Does that mean six months, a year or 18 months' time when Irish Water has to turn around and say, actually, the water infrastructure is not there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is construction worker capacity an issue for the ESB or Uisce Éireann currently or as they scale up in terms of getting construction capacity for delivering their infrastructure? To the ESB, if we had a greater level of solar panel delivery on homes, is there the potential for that to provide electricity, and if there was proper retrofitting happening, would that in any way address the...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The housing crisis is no longer a crisis; it is a social catastrophe. It is an emergency, as the Government has accepted. However, Government actions - cutting key housing projects, suspending funding and gutting homelessness prevention schemes - tell a very different story. Instead of rising to meet this catastrophe, the Government is failing time and time again. That is because its...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units provided under the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided for the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34752/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I will raise an issue I have highlighted here before. We know of the growing need and demand for co-educational Educate Together schools. One such school in my own constituency is Clonturk Community College in Dublin 9. It is a co-educational Educate Together school. It is a fantastic school with over 1,000 students. My eldest son attended the school and had a great experience there....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Not true.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Ombudsman for his work. The housing assistance payment is an area that I have researched and done work on. The Ombudsman's findings on HAP are important in highlighting the problems with the payment. Perhaps we could discuss a few of them. The other area I want to discuss is disability and the Office of the Ombudsman's powers and resources. Mr. Deering spoke about...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: To push Mr. Deering a bit on this, and I understand he does not want to comment directly on the legislation, if we look at it in terms of housing need, we have the housing waiting list which comprises people on the local authority waiting list and not on the transfer list. It is in the region of 58,000 households. Most of those in receipt of HAP are not on this waiting list. How we define...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Even when they are in receipt of HAP they are still in housing need in relation to security of tenure and paying extra rent on top of differential rent. Mr. Deering has mentioned the issue of access to it if they have to move. There are also people with disabilities, lone parents and migrants.