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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We are deadly serious about it. Where is the Deputy's wording? Where is his amendment?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I gave the Deputy the 14 tests.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Could I speak without interruption, please?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is always the case that when Deputies do not like the answer, they interrupt.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman. I published 14 tests and I gave them to Deputy Ó Broin. He is aware of them. He did not come back with one change in language that would help us to address the concerns of those 14 tests.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am telling the Deputy that we are working on it. I asked him for help. I said let us try to do this by consensus. The Deputy has not bothered. We have been working hard. The Deputy knows how complex it is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Do not put this on us. The Deputy’s party has plenty of legal advice because he is always talking about it. He knows how difficult this is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: If it was so simple, the Deputy would have found the wording.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47, 50, 52, 53 and 93 together. Rebuilding Ireland is designed to significantly increase the supply of social housing by 50,000 homes in the period to 2021, to double the output of overall housing to at least 25,000 homes per year by 2020, support all tenure types - social, private, rental - and tackle homelessness comprehensively. In 2018, 8,000 new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: There are a number of questions grouped.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I understood that when we grouped questions, my reply could be-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. The Deputy is well able to use statistics when they suit him. Facts matter, and behind each of the numbers that I mentioned is a family, a child or an individual who has been helped because of our plans. There are now fewer than 100 people sleeping rough on our streets, which is too many, but it is a very important reduction. It has not been that low since...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: That is how we solve this crisis.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have to dispute the comments Deputy Boyd Barrett has made. Supply is the answer and supply is increasing. One should look at the numbers going into emergency accommodation since I came into office and the numbers today. Yes, an increase in the region of 2,500 is unacceptable, but in that same period, 12,000 people left homelessness. That would not have been possible if we were not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: They are getting smaller pensions.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We will bring the legislation to Cabinet, I hope, in the next week.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48 and 76 together. The Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) was designed to activate housing supply by putting in place the enabling public infrastructure necessary to ensure that large scale development could take place on key sites in urban areas of high housing demand. Funding of €200 million was originally made available under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 51 and 95 together. Rebuilding Ireland sets out a range of measures to assist in meeting Ireland’s housing needs by ensuring that our existing housing stock is used to the greatest extent possible. A central action within it is a commitment to develop a National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy. This Strategy, which I published July 2018, strives to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (11 Dec 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) is currently working with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council on a delivery plan for the site referred to. This site can yield approximately 600 homes, which are likely to be primarily social and affordable housing. Ultimately, any decision regarding the ownership and development of the site will be a matter for the local authority. As provided for...