Results 261-280 of 289 for speaker:Rory Hearne

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

Rory Hearne: Over the last decade, how many children have been through emergency accommodation?

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

Rory Hearne: If we could get that information, that would be great.

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

Rory Hearne: The Cathaoirleach should go with the order.

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

Rory Hearne: The issue I wanted to raise before the ombudsman goes is the right to housing. How important does he believe putting a right to housing in law and in the Constitution would be in addressing the housing crisis?

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

Rory Hearne: I have a question for Ms Hayes. Given the suspension of the tenant in situ scheme and that last year the scheme prevented hundreds of families and in the region of 1,500 children nationally from becoming homeless, does Ms Hayes think the suspension of the tenant in situ scheme this year will result in a rise in homelessness?

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

Rory Hearne: It was helping to prevent people being made homeless.

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

Rory Hearne: Now it is not available.

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

Rory Hearne: In regard to the issue of rising rents, people will still be able to be evicted for rent arrears into the future. The legislation will not change that. That is likely to still be a cause of homelessness, is it not?

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

Rory Hearne: I have just one more brief question and another for Mr. Mulhern. Does Ms Hayes think the HAP limits need to be increased? The Simon Community's look at the market shows very few properties available.

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

Rory Hearne: Okay, I thank Ms Hayes. On the PPPs and the impact on social housing delivery, I have gone through the figures there for Dublin City Council for 2027 and 2028. In 2027 15% of the social homes were due to be delivered via public-private partnership, which was 342 of the 2,200. In 2028 it goes up to 57% of the social homes due to be delivered by the city council coming through public-private...

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]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has recently engaged with the Road Safety Authority in respect of any new large-scale public information campaign that could be carried out to ensure proper use of e-scooters and to increase the public’s knowledge of existing rules around proper use of e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34293/25]

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

Rory Hearne: That legislation will not come into effect until next March.

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...

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...

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.