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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: -----to be helped to do that. This will be managed through the Housing Agency. Each expression of interest that comes through will be on a open book basis and assessed on its individual merits. That comes with lots of strings-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Senator for her comments and her support for these additional measures. As I mentioned to Deputy McAuliffe earlier, the operation of licence arrangements, even prior to Covid, is a devolved power to local authorities. They decide whether to grant or refuse a licence, what type of licence they give and what is included in that licence. This means the scope of it, for example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I have two other committee meetings today but it is fine. I take the point made but the Deputy can trust me when I say we are not trying to micromanage anything at a local authority level. The devolved power on decisions is for them. Taking the Axis theatre and the plaza in Ballymun, which I know well, if that centre makes an application, it will need to give some view or picture through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for his support for these measures. As regards the first issue he raised, some local authorities have taken a very good and planned approach, with uniform barriers and awnings and that type of thing. We want to encourage that because it improves aesthetics. Other local authorities need support to make sure that is improved and we will do that. There is a need to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I am completely in agreement on the importance of the community water connections under the upcoming multi-annual rural water programme that runs to 2025. To give the Deputy an idea for timeframes, the working group is currently finalising a report due. That should be with me in the coming weeks to make recommendations. I will not be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy. I look forward to reading the report from Deputy Matthews and other colleagues on the housing committee. We will be moving forward with the Croí Cónaithe towns and villages fund. We have identified it as a pathway to housing and to tackling vacancy. All three parties in government are serious about doing so. As regards work on a vacant property tax, data...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom mo fhíor-chomhbhrón a ghabháil leis na daoine sna Stáit Aontaithe, go mór mór na daoine áitiúla in Valdes Texas tar éis dúnmharú uafásach na leanaí ann. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha dílse. On behalf of the Government I send our deepest sympathies to those affected by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputies want like specific examples, the Deputy's party leader sitting beside him has become a serial objector to developments too. Sinn Féin opposed Oscar Traynor Road.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin opposed Ballymastone and the 253 social and affordable homes and, yes, some private homes too. Private ownership is not illegal either. Sinn Féin has opposed Ballymastone, Oscar Traynor Road, O'Devaney Gardens and any scheme that comes forward because it does not want to see progress. We have a plan that will work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Snodaigh should try to restrain himself if he can. The reality is that, at every juncture, Sinn Féin has tried to distort the truth. This is a targeted measure to support homeownership in our five major cities, in which the support goes directly to the homeowner.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Doherty should try to calm down a little bit. By the way, that document is not a secret document. We published all the details on Croí Cónaithe online. Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson did not even know that last week when he asked me where the document was. Sinn Féin needs to do a bit more homework.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin is opposed to build to buy. We know it is opposed to build to rent, even though we need more rental properties. We need a balance between ownership. We want homeownership and apartments in which people-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Hold on a second. Will you just let me respond? You might not like the answers. Do not shout me down. I will not be bullied by you. I will be allowed to speak.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: There is a track record that the Deputy might not want to talk about. Sinn Féin is opposed to build to rent and now it is opposed to build to buy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I asked what Deputy Doherty is actually for. It is very little. He does not want to-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: There is really no point in trying to respond when the Deputy keeps interrupting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: This happens regularly, and that is fine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The proof is in the figures of the number of commencements. That is what is happening. Improvements are taking place. We are not there yet at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: We know that but we are being honest with people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Do not try to distort the truth, Pearse.