Results 41-60 of 150 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Meetings (25 Feb 2025)

Rory Hearne: 695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Ballymun Implementation Board; if a senior official from his Department will be appointed to the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (27 Feb 2025)

Rory Hearne: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authorities have furnished details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their registers; if so, if he will outline this information, by local authority; the number of actions and fines issued under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 for each respective local authority in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an group for bringing forward this motion. It is very important we focus on this issue. Similarly to my colleague, I also have differences with some of this motion. We need to understand why there is such frustration among the public regarding the issue of waste in public expenditure. It is because people are lacking basic access to services, especially access...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: Tá grúpaí Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta fud fad na tíre buartha faoi staid reatha na teanga. Is cinnte go bhfuil rudaí maithe ar nós Kneecap, "An Cailín Ciúin" agus eile ann ach níl ag éirí go maith leis an nGaeilge sa chóras oideachais. Tá crúachas ann i maoiniú na Gaeilge sa phobal agus tá fadhbanna an-mhór le...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely and vital motion. It is deeply disappointing to see that the Government is not supporting it and has put forward an amendment that will take away from the point of the motion. I am deeply annoyed and frustrated by this Government's failure to act on homelessness and to treat it like an emergency. A home is one of the most...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent CSO data showing that the number of new homes approved annually fell by over 21% in 2024; his plans to introduce an alternative policy measure to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12895/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: In terms of the planning applications, we have seen a significant fall in applications. The figures are down over 21% annually, and apartments even further. What are the Minister's plans to address this? In particular, does it not show that the Minister's housing policy and Housing for All as a policy has not worked, that new measures are required and, in fact, that the reliance on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I do not see the radical reset in the Minister's response that the Housing Commission called for and the Minister himself agreed was needed. We know the definition of insanity is continuing the same policy or same approach and expecting a different outcome. On the question about the planning and apartments, there is over-reliance on institutional investors. Institutional investors invest...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Minister is repeating the same tropes that the Taoiseach repeats that we have had no alternatives. If the Minister looked at our election manifesto, he is correct that we talked about using private investment but it is the particular type of private investment. The Taoiseach is also spinning this by saying we are against private investment. We are not against private investment in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reverse the decision to restrict eligibility and funding for the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: This question relates to the tenant in situ scheme, which we discussed last night. Will the Minister reconsider the framing and limitations he is putting on the scheme? While it is welcome that he is committing to continuing with the scheme, this will not actually involve a continuation of the scheme that has been in place because the new limitations will change the nature of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: While I appreciate that the Minister is committing to continuing the scheme, will he provide the evidence to back up why he is targeting it? Why is it not being provided on a general basis in order to give local authorities the flexibility and funding to respond to whatever household is facing eviction or homelessness? Why does it have to be only families? Why is the Minister saying-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I know, but prioritisation means local authorities will have to decide. Local authorities will have a certain budget and will be able to purchase properties and keep some people in their homes, but not others. We are in this system of prioritisation rather than a general ability to apply the scheme. That means restricting some local authorities in their ability to do it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is not true that the tenant in situ scheme is being continued as it was. There has been a change to it. In the context of the removal of the funding for refurbishment, will the Minister reconsider this and, in the context of the circular that is to be issued, allocate local authorities funding for refurbishment under the scheme?

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is my daughter's sixth birthday today. I think about the world and the Europe we are creating for her and all the children, living and those to come. It is incredible that the project of the European Union, which was supposed to be about peace and improving quality of life for the people living there, now appears to be about to become a project of war. This will not make Europe safer or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the fact more than 88,000 homes are currently vacant, in view of data showing that over 2,000 homes were liable for the vacant property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to accelerate and scale up the delivery of affordable housing via local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a progress report on his Department’s plans, published in 2017, to build 50,000 homes on over 700 public land sites (details supplied); the number of homes delivered on each site since the publication of this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hectares of land owned by local authorities which is zoned for housing developments nationwide, by local authority; the total amount of local authority land which is zoned for housing, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9076/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 43. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme office in respect of addressing one of its six priority areas: child and family homelessness. [6426/25]