Results 281-300 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I echo my colleagues' sentiments and statements on this. The people of Gaza do not have time left for this Government's dithering and delaying on the implementation of the occupied territories Bill. Seventeen thousand children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli genocidal regime. Right now, millions of people in Gaza are being starved to death. They are being shot and murdered while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Uisce Éireann and the ESB for coming in. We know there is a lack of investment in and delivery of critical infrastructure for housing. This has been building up for years. What do the witnesses think needs to change to ensure that critical infrastructure - water and electricity - does not delay or limit housing development? The second question is to both organisations, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I want to get the sense of emergency out there as well and we have talked about this before. A period of two or three years has been mentioned. Does that mean six months, a year or 18 months' time when Irish Water has to turn around and say, actually, the water infrastructure is not there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is construction worker capacity an issue for the ESB or Uisce Éireann currently or as they scale up in terms of getting construction capacity for delivering their infrastructure? To the ESB, if we had a greater level of solar panel delivery on homes, is there the potential for that to provide electricity, and if there was proper retrofitting happening, would that in any way address the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures taken to implement a State savings scheme such as the Social Democrats-proposed ‘Homes for Ireland’ State savings scheme, submitted to him and the Taoiseach on 19 May 2025, which would leverage the €160 billion in deposits to fund affordable housing delivery. [36247/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of the timeline for the 2027 census, he will set out the subsequent timelines for completion and publication by the Electoral Commission of boundary reviews for, respectively, local electoral areas; European constituencies; and Dáil constituencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 638. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of creche groups that have pulled out of core funding in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 639. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of creches that have signed up to the core funding scheme in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (1 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 640. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether there is a plan to support families whose only accessible creches are in the 7% of creches that are not signed up to the core funding scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's analysis of the forecast effect on current spending on the HAP and RAS schemes as a result of the Government's proposed reforms to rent pressure zones; the extent to which an expansion of those schemes is likely due to increased rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36721/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Child poverty has doubled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Where is the evidence-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Under Standing Order 35(3), I propose an amendment to the Order of Business for Thursday afternoon. The Minister for housing needs to come into the Dáil to answer questions-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for housing come into the Dáil for a debate and questions on apartment standards and future homes. They are going to have profoundly negative implications for generations to come, condemning generations to living in dark shoe boxes-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is going to lead to further delays. This is an absolute disaster; it is going to heap disaster upon disaster.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: What?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: We want to build affordable homes. The Government just wants to buy and build expensive apartments that no one can afford.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: It said 40,000 homes. Is that what the Government is going to build - 40,000 homes?