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Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Ceann Comhairle has ruled out of order a parliamentary question on the matter so this is the only opportunity——

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a serious matter.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Indeed, but the Chair must also protect the rights of Members.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: If my question is ruled out of order, the Ceann Comhairle will have to allow me to put it to the Taoiseach on the Order of Business.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the answer?

Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Why will the Government not publish the advice of the Attorney General?

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 110: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dwellings completed and handed over to date for affordable housing under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31183/06]

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: When commencing the Planning and Development Act on 31 October 2000, the then Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Noel Dempsey, said it was not an exaggeration to say that Part V of the Act would bring about the most fundamental changes in how local authorities plan and provide for housing. Since the Act came into effect, approximately 400,000 private houses...

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: When? The Government has had seven years to do it.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The figures are 1,837 and 950.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Less than 1% of the total.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Because the Government changed the law.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Given that, seven years after this measure was announced, which promised that 20% of private housing would be social and affordable, less than 1% is delivered, will the Minister of State tell us how many more decades of Fianna Fáil rule will be required before we reach the 20% target?

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has had seven years, but less than 1% has been delivered.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: When?

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Some 1,800 out of 400,000——

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That is rubbish. The Minister of State knows as well as I do that a planning permission has a five-year life. Any planning permissions developers got before this Act was published in 1999 have expired. Anybody who had a 1999 planning permission would have to get new planning permission. Therefore, what the Minister of State has said is rubbish. The Act should now be fully operational....

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That is because after 2003 the Minister of State made them exempt.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: It has delivered less than 1%.

Social and Affordable Housing. (4 Oct 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State is good at double addition.