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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: This is very straightforward. It is about the cost of building houses in an estate. My worry is that, when developers or builders buy lands, it will normally be a couple of years before they apply for planning permission or build houses. Most of the land that will be built on in the coming years is land purchased prior to 31 July 2021. I ask the Minister of State to commit to looking at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I very much welcome this scheme. By way of clarification, when will this be a nationwide scheme? It is in the villages and towns at the moment. When will it go to the big urban areas, to rural areas and to city centres? It would make a great difference in Limerick city centre and within the environs of the city. When will it become a blanket nationwide scheme covering all older...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would prefer to hear the Minister's response to our query. This is only negativity.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: As long as I get my question answered. That is all I want.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I know of many people, particularly in Limerick and in the cities, who have identified properties they wish to renovate. They are asking me when will the commencement date will be.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: When in November? Will it be for the cities and rural areas? When will it be available nationwide? What is the precise date? Will there be a public awareness campaign? I am still getting questions from people about the actual commencement date.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand on the plans to increase social housing income limits nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47268/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have raised this issue on a number of occasions, including last February. It is about the social housing income limit. I read the report and the initial review of income limits for social housing. I have a couple of comments. Only seven local authorities nationally have less than 35% of disposable incomes going to rent. That is the benchmark. Between 2011 and the first quarter of last...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Second, I want an increase for a dependent adult from 5% to 6% and an increase for a child from 2.5% to 3%.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State. He and the Minister have done a body of work on this. They have increased the income eligibility threshold in the five local authorities by €5,000. If we look back to 2011, the average industrial wage was just short of €36,000. Now the average industrial wage is just above €43,000 or €44,000. That is a 20% increase. There is now...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Housing is the main issue. I will speak in the context of the Limerick City constituency, which I represent. My views are well known. I welcome that the budget has amended the living city initiative and extended it until 2027, which means another five years. I want to see people living in the city centre. That is something on which I have worked. Limerick city centre has a Georgian...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have raised previously the matter of affordable housing. I want Part V to be in place as a condition of planning permission for all new estates from now on. It is currently the case that if land was bought before 31 July 2021 and planning permission for it granted before July 2021, there is no requirement to provide 10% affordable housing under Part V. I am not talking about luxury homes...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am talking about ordinary people who want to live in their communities.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a serious problem. Many new estates currently being built have no 10% affordable provision under Part V.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that are in receipt of illness benefit will receive a cost-of-living double payment and a €500 once-off lump sum announced in Budget 2023 for other payments. [48963/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I raise the need for an elective hospital in Limerick. It is already Government policy that Cork, Galway and Dublin will get elective hospitals, and it is completely illogical that Limerick and the mid-west are not included. There are a couple of reasons for that. I have been a public representative of Limerick for many years. We have the highest number of people going through the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have two issues. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, but I would like to have had the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, in the Chamber today. He is the Minister with primary responsibility; he should have been here. Second, I wholeheartedly disagree with the Minister for Health's comment that an additional elective facility in Limerick would have minimal...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I just say-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the comments from the Taoiseach in the Minister of State's response. It is something we will be following up on.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money spent by the National Transport Authority in each of the past eight quarters on leaflets; if they are satisfied that all of these leaflets were delivered and if not, the action that is being taken to remedy this. [49301/22]