Results 241-260 of 289 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does the Housing Agency have any plans to do assessment of need for affordable housing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I think that should feed into the new housing plan. As time is short, I want to move on to the Land Development Agency. How much capital did the LDA spend last year in delivering housing? How much does it intend to spend this year? Are there any viability risks or sustainability risks in the delivery of cost-rental housing? If the Government gave the LDA an additional €1.5...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Are there any viability risks in terms of delivering cost-rental housing particularly in relation to rents? If the LDA got an additional €1 billion or €2 billion, could it deliver more housing in the coming two to three years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does Mr. Coleman have any concerns into the future over cost rental and the affordability of rents?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Central Bank housing figures, out today, show with terrifying clarity the housing disaster that the Government’s policies have created. Not only did the Government mislead the public in the election by stating 40,000 homes would be built last year but it will not reach anywhere near 40,000 homes this year or next year. It is also pulling the plug on social housing projects due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Following on from previous questioners, in terms of the Land Development Agency and the issue of moderately constrained land and the potential of 56,000 homes, the timeframe Mr. Coleman has set out feels very long given the context of the crisis we are in. I again ask the question: what can be done to speed that up and bring that land on board? In particular, he said the land report relates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I am sorry.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from the family of a child at risk of losing out on an appropriate school place in the coming academic year; if she will provide a definitive timeline for the new classes in the school in question to be completed; if she will account for the apparent delays in the...

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

Rory Hearne: Not true.

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....

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.

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

Rory Hearne: Perhaps Mr Deering can speak in a bit of detail about a couple of the cases that have been brought to the Office of the Ombudsman. It would be useful to indicate this housing need.

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

Rory Hearne: It comes to the fundamental point on the inequality that has been pointed out between those in receipt of HAP and those in receipt of social housing. There are 60,000 households deemed to have their housing needs met, yet here they are facing all the issues outlined, and going to the Office of the Ombudsman, which shows it is not the case.

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...

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

Rory Hearne: I have a broad question about the overall approach to public services. There has been strong criticism in social policy literature down the years that the Irish welfare state and its public services show charity values rather than taking a human rights approach and perspective. Many problems stem from that. The approach we take is not that citizens are entitled to public services as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank everyone for coming in. I have a couple of questions, the first of which is for the representatives of the children's ombudsman. Why do they think the scale of child and family homelessness is not a national scandal? It is institutionalisation and we know that it leaves lasting damage. Do they see a future requirement for a redress scheme for children who have been through...