Results 661-680 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: It seems very unlikely that thousands will have that in place by then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does the Department have any concern about how councils are essentially going to be certifying these units of accommodation and short-term lets in terms of fire safety standards? Given the pressure councils are under, does the Department have any concern that the deregulation of accommodation in back gardens, for example, is going to lead to a proliferation or an increase of substandard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Okay. Does the Department have any concerns about the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Yes.

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I completely back my colleague, Deputy O' Callaghan. The Minister talked about politics of the lowest kind. Politics of the lowest kind is to allow over 5,000 children to be homeless every single year and to vote, year after year, against implementing an eviction ban. The Minister is a Minister of homelessness. He stands over all the things he been done in this country, all the great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I will start with the situation in relation to vacancy and dereliction. We are all coming at this from the perspective that we have an absolute housing disaster, with record homelessness, as the witnesses are all too well aware. We spoke about long periods of time but culturally, politically and policy-wise there has been a complete failure to prioritise vacant and derelict buildings and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: What proportion of the grants relates to rental properties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Approximately one grant in four is going to landlords as an affordability measure. We are helping landlords through affordability measures that come from public funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Are they making them available at an affordable rent when they receive the vacant property grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Ms Behan said "one would assume" this is the case. Does she know whether it is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Before moving to that, I asked the Department officials whether they consider that the vacant property tax is working to address the high level of vacancy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I ask the local authority representatives to respond to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is the funding available to the council adequate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I welcome our guests and thank them for coming. Representatives of various Departments and local authorities were before the committee earlier to discuss this issue. On the basis of what we heard from them, you would think this is all going fine, they are on top of the issue of vacancy and dereliction and all the figures are there. What strikes me is that it feels like there is a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: The figure we heard was a rate of vacancy of approximately 2%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does Dr. Crowe think the figures, for example the 2% vacancy rate and the reports of significant reductions in vacancy, are accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: My time is short so I would ask Ms Sherry and Dr. O'Connor to come in.

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Aontú and others for bringing forward the motion today. It is an important discussion about how we choose our President, the processes set out for that and who is eligible to vote. The Social Democrats are open to engaging in a cross-party discussion about the processes in place to elect a President. Uachtarán na hÉireann, as has been set out, is the highest office...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (21 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm if there is a practice of applying cost deductions on AHB scheme approvals, in the form of disallowing major portions of land, construction, communal, and financing costs; to clarify if this practice is in some cases disallowing costs ranging from €2-4 million of the cost to build the schemes, making the...