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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Great. I am conscious of my time but I have two more questions, the first of which relates to the lifting of the rent caps. Maybe both witnesses wish to come in on this question. If we lifted the rent caps and took whatever measures, there is no guarantee it would lead to an increase in supply because there are other factors that influence why institutional investors do or do not invest....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does Dr. Kelly wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: We have put forward a proposal for a homes for Ireland State savings scheme, which would leverage the €160 billion in private deposit accounts. Do the witnesses see a role for a potential scheme like that, similar to one in France, that would leverage that money and enable lending for housing development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have a brief question. I am trying to keep it as concise as possible. It follows on from Deputy Ó Broin’s question. The issue we face is we need an additional 15,000-plus homes built per year. The capital figure mentioned is €7 billion. Would it not be more economically and socially beneficial that the 15,000 was affordable housing, particularly affordable purchase,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the rationale for recent comments he made in a newspaper (details supplied) regarding international investors; to provide any analysis his Department has conducted or used on the amount of any such investment in housing by international investors that Ireland is believed to be losing out on; the countries believed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has directly produced, or contracted a third-party to produce, an analysis of the return on investment or yield from private residential investment in Ireland and the factors that may be impacting the levels of such investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Central Statistics Office (27 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. reply 794 of 15 May 2025, if his Department met with the CSO to discuss the changes to data entry on the CRCS; if there is a plan for implementation; if there is a timeline for the implementation of these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26764/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Stop our Central Bank selling Israeli bonds then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: You are going to have to do more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Until their tenancy ends.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: When is a rent too high?

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Today the Taoiseach said that rents are supposedly not going to increase but we know it is the case that rents will increase as a result of the measures brought in today by the Government. We are in the midst of an emergency that the Government accepts is an emergency, with rents higher than they have ever been in the history of the State - they are completely unaffordable and unsustainable...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Of course they can; they are doing it every day. How many evictions took place last year? There were thousands and thousands of evictions. They can evict a tenant through the sale of the property to a family member. Landlords are already on the radio saying that they are leaving properties vacant for two years so they can charge the market rent. They now know that next March, they will...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion today on voids in council housing. I have worked for many years in the area of public and council housing. One of the key issues is that local authorities, historically, for the past 30 or 40 years, have been not just undermined but effectively decommissioned in their role in housing. I remember this clearly from when I worked in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the members of the Housing Commission who are present. It is great to have them here. I have gone through the report in detail and it is very interesting from an academic, political and social point of view. It is a pity there has not been more engagement with it. While I clearly would not agree with a certain amount in it, there is much that I do agree with. I have many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Why is that? What has been set out is obviously significant and comprehensible and calls for a radical reset, but what are the officials afraid of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is Professor Norris referring to what is implied by the ticked boxes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The obvious thing is to ask the commission members whether they would be willing to continue if asked again to continue monitoring and implementing. While I disagree with some of the witnesses, I believe they have provided something excellent. The amount of time and work they put in is incredible and there is so much in it that the obvious thing is to bring the commission back again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Mr. O'Flynn and I have different points of view on what a public construction company could do and I do not think he needs to fear it as much as he thinks he needs to. Do the witnesses want to refer to the question about interest in the market, the question of the minority report?

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: This motion gives the Irish Government the opportunity to fulfil its moral, ethical, legal and democratic obligations to act to prevent the genocide that is being committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel is pursuing a campaign of collective punishment against the Palestinian people, destroying entire cities and forced displacement camps where people have nowhere else to go....