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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year cost in 2016 of extending the Fund for Students with Disabilities to students participating in part-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1983/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB Networks (21 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will mandate that Electricity Supply Board Networks meter readers receive An Garda Síochána clearance before being employed, given the recent arrangements entered into by the company with regard to meter readers and given that their roles bring them onto private property, including entering into private...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: At around 3 o'clock today, I received a copy of the supplementary Order Paper on which the motion I speak on appeared. There were two suggested amendments on it, the first from Deputy Dessie Ellis which contained a constructive contribution to the debate. The second was from the Minister of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, which tried to make some claim to...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister, Deputy O'Sullivan, was Minister of State with responsibility for housing and planning for four of those years. It is a shameful legacy. It is in contrast with the attempt to claim all credit for implementing the recovery initiated by the late Brian Lenihan. This Government - Fine Gael lite - has created a situation in which rental prices have now risen beyond the reach of...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Four months living in a hotel. There is a couple who have slept in a turf shed under the Minister's watch for the last six months-----

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: -----waiting to be housed.That is the Government's legacy. The Government has left council staff in a hopeless situation, unable to offer houses and with no option but to direct people towards the private rental accommodation market.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: However, there is no supply in that area. The Government has secured a ceiling of supports, which the Tánaiste stubbornly refuses to move, contrary to the advice of all the experts in that area and organisations working on the front line of homeless people in this country. The Labour Party turned its back on the homeless and vulnerable. The Tánaiste who styles herself and her...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: -----a roof over the head of a child who will sleep in a turf shed.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: That is the Government's legacy. Its intransigence is fuelled by the ethos of its senior party in Government. The Labour Party has become Fine Gael blue lite.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: The homeless statistics make for grim reading. Over 700 families and over 1,500 children are now living in emergency accommodation. Alongside them are over 6,000 individuals, many of whom have been waiting years in emergency accommodation. The Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, boasts about his spending on homelessness during his tenure as Minister. This money is not being spent on keeping...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: It is appalling that the Minister smirks at homelessness. How dare she? Shame on her for smirking about 1,500 children. Smirk away at those children in emergency accommodation tonight.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Shame on the Labour Party and shame on the Minister. Without a home, there is no threshold of decency. Without homes, people are left on the streets. Without homes people are left sleeping in sheds. Without homes, people are sleeping on the streets of Dublin tonight.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Shame on the Minister. Let that be her legacy. She remembers very well the 1,500 children as she bounces on the doors in the next couple of weeks. Shame on her and let the Irish citizen remember her legacy when she was Minister with responsibility for housing.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: She was Minister for housing and she made those children suffer. Smile away, Minister. Smile at those children and their welfare and the difficulties she has left for them.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: She has abandoned them. She has abandoned the Irish people. She has turned her back on them-----

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: -----and she is the architect because she was there and she must have somersaulted with some happiness when she got her senior promotion and abandoned her portfolio because she takes no responsibility, in the dying days of this Government, because she is part of the most arrogant Government, which turned its back on the most vulnerable people. She sits here sniggering.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: She is. She sniggers at children in emergency accommodation. This will be her legacy - her snigger as 1,500 children are abandoned by the Labour Party, by Fine Gael lite.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Remember, that will be her lasting legacy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 313. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Rationalisation Programme (27 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he allowed Teagasc to lease more land to Dawn Meats and Dawn Farm Foods at Mellows campus in Athenry, County Galway; the purpose of this lease; the amount of land leased; the annual income for Teagasc from these arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3341/16]