Results 15,461-15,480 of 26,293 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is on the Official Record. Tell the truth.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not in the €4 billion-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that this Government: — published its housing plan, Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland (Housing for All), in September 2021, with record levels of funding in place to support the delivery of the plan, and unprecedented guaranteed State investment of over...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that have been referenced here already. We are working with every tool available to us to drive down the numbers in homelessness. The approach to homelessness has to be housing-led. It has to be about increasing supply across all tenures - social housing, affordable housing, private housing and rental housing. Deputies have referenced the lack of rental housing on the market. Some...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: In Sinn Féin's most recent budget manifesto, the only proposal relating to rental properties was to add a €400 second home tax on individual landlords, the very mom and pop landlords Deputy Ó Broin says he wants to keep in the market. That was the Sinn Féin proposal. Let us get back to the facts. The reality is that housing is not a political game. Deputies should...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: They do not believe the LDA should even plan for houses. Do they want the four planning applications for 2,400 homes recently lodged by the LDA to be refused? Do they want to see those homes built? Maybe they do not. That may be the reason that, as we discussed earlier-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Gould should try to behave himself, please.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Tá brón orm, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will not state the obvious, but the reality is that there is a need to build supply up, and supply is increasing. Supply is increasing across the board, albeit not to the levels we need. We need to go further. To March 2022, we had the highest number of residential units completed since 2011. That is 22,219 new homes. It is not possible...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult to continue with the repeated interruptions.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: There is a need to build up supply and capacity across all tenures. Housing for All will deliver, and is delivering, the single biggest social housing programme in the history of the State. It is doing that. It will deliver thousands of new social homes this year. I believe in homeownership but I do not believe Sinn Féin does. Sinn Féin has railed against the help to buy scheme...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Try to behave yourself, please.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I am stating a fact.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Last year Deputy Ó Broin said in this House that it was going to be a second mortgage, which was going to be at 6%, 7% or 8% interest. It is not a second mortgage. It is an equity stake that the State is taking to help the thousands of people the Deputy said he wants to help-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: That is just the usual trite nonsense Deputy Ó Broin goes on with. The fact of the matter is there is a scheme here-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Right now there are people paying rents above the level they should be paying. People are paying-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy tabled the motion. Does he want a debate or not? Will I sit down? The reality is I am about delivering policies that positively impact-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not going to continue to be shouted down. I certainly will not be bullied by the Deputy in this House. I should be allowed to respond, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have tabled a Government countermotion-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: He finds it difficult to contain himself.