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Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I disagree. I say to Deputy Doherty-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----that I see slogans-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----and the politicisation of the issue, which is what Deputy Bacik said. I will give her one example of that.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, we are absolutely fixated on and determined in trying to prevent homelessness-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----but not a single member of the Opposition this morning referred to something that was agreed last week, which is fundamental, significant and not conservative but progressive-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----which was the decision to put in a safety net so that we help and try to prevent that. They have not mentioned that once. It will be introduced on 1 April.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: If Deputies are really interested in this issue and if we are really interested in protecting it-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The safety net that we decided last week that if someone is on social welfare-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Could I make my point? If someone is on social welfare and is at risk of being evicted, we have expanded the tenant in situprogramme so that the local authority-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Let me make the point, Deputy Howlin.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We have expanded the funding and made sure there will be no limit to the availability for that to protect those people-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----but not just those in receipt of social welfare.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: We have provided additional grant funding. For some, it will mean they have the first right of refusal ahead of anyone, which is the vast majority.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Deputy Ó Broin might let me make my point.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I listened to him, with respect-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: -----so he needs to listen to me.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: For those who want to purchase their own house, we will provide shared equity schemes to help them do that, and where they cannot afford to do that, we will have a mechanism whereby the local authority or approved housing body, AHB, purchases the property. That is new.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: That is radical and different.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I will conclude with that. Let us not just use slogans. Let us not play politics with housing. Let us work on real solutions.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Salmon fisheries In Ireland are managed on an individual river basis as each of Ireland’s more than 140 salmon rivers has a genetically unique stock particular to that river. In December last, I enacted the Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Tagging Regulations for 2023 which came into operation on 1 January and set out, inter alia, the status of each of Ireland‘s more than 140...