Results 141-150 of 150 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (7 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites which have been identified appears on the annual map for 2025 residential zoned land tax published on 31 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22018/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions Act) 2024 to earmark certain cost rental units for local key workers; the number of units his Department intends to earmark for key workers per year; the location of the housing units; the cost per unit; the timeline for when these units will be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I raise the case of a five-year-old autistic boy with additional needs in my constituency who is attending junior infants. His mother Grainne contacted me recently and their story is revealing of a system that is badly failing children with additional needs. After months of school distress, hours of work with the school, mediation and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is SNA, and ANA as well. The school is saying it does not have-----

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Minister and my colleagues for the opportunity to speak on this issue. As an educator who worked as an associate professor in the area of social science in Maynooth University, I emphasise the importance of social policy and social sciences in education. I worked at Maynooth University, but there is also a university in my constituency, namely, DCU. It provides high-quality...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. We will be supporting it and opposing the Government's amendment. This is a vital discussion. Unfortunately, it feels as if every week, we are discussing a new blockage to providing housing. The incredible thing is that each week, this new barrier is responded to by the Government and the Department of Housing, Local Government and...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: To back up my colleague, we very much support this Bill. I thank our colleagues in People Before Profit for introducing it. This is important legislation. Collective bargaining is key in terms of Ireland and our economy. When we look at it, the Irish economic model has, unfortunately, been built on an undermining of workers' rights by not ensuring collective bargaining is in place. When...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: We hear today that rents are up again 5.5% nationally. The new average rent in Dublin is €2,177 per month. A worker earning €30,000 per year would have to spend their entire take-home pay to cover that amount and that still would not be enough. Renters across this country are struggling. How can they keep paying higher rents? They are stressed and terrified about the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Will the report be published?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1224 of 29 April 2025, which provided a tabular breakdown of funding that has been recouped to date, if he could more specifically provide details of the level of funding that was committed to but may not have been recouped, or drawn down, yet by the local authorities; and if he will...