Results 181-200 of 1,041,254 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Brendan Smith OR speaker:John McGuinness) in 'Committee meetings'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have no problem buying eggs from the local person who produces them in Ballycotton. That is supporting local people in our communities who are doing an extra bit of work like that and keeping the local economy working as best we can.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am sure that will be a great comfort to the parents of the kids who go hungry every day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have acknowledged the increase in food prices, as well as the cost of energy. That is why we did some unprecedented stuff in respect of giving people money back to try to deal with the undoubted increase in the cost of living. That is why the €400 lump-sum, once-off working family payments were made to 45,000 families with 97,000 children. A total of 409,000 households got a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should acknowledge that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I asked about food inflation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid ag bogadh ar aghaidh go dtí an chéad cheist eile.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: No one was surprised by the failures of the Government's housing policy that were laid out in last week's report from the Housing Commission. I see those failures every day in my constituency office when I meet people struggling to pay rent or find a home, stuck on housing lists for 16 to 18 years and stuck in homelessness. The desperation out there is a direct result of the housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, we have a very extensive tenant in situ programme. It has been very effective.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Not according to the commission.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, introduced it approximately two years ago. It has been very successful and effective in preventing evictions by giving the option of going to the seller and saying the council will buy the house, thereby enabling the person living there to continue as a tenant of the council. It has been very effective, with up to 1,800 approvals so far. I will get the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply but it does not answer my question. The situation in Ireland is that 5,000 people have entered emergency accommodation since the ban on no-fault evictions was lifted last year. Terminations of tenancies rose by 20% after the ban was lifted, with more than 19,000 households issued with eviction notices last year. We have record homelessness. More...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not think the commission is recommending no-fault evictions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It is recommending stopping them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is not what it says in the report. One of its recommendations is: Regulate market rents fairly and effectively by reforming the current system of rent regulation and establishing a system of ‘Reference Rents’. This reform should be informed by evidence-based reviews on the impact of regulated market rents on rented housing supply, accessibility and affordability. Such...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: My reference was to a specific recommendation in section 6.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Yes, and I have gone through the recommendations for the rental sector. I do not see any reference to a ban on no-fault evictions. It seems that the commission wants a significant reform of the existing rental market regulation. That will take significant work. Meanwhile, the Government is absolutely committed to the tenantin situscheme, as we have demonstrated by buying houses where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did say earlier, as the Deputy himself referenced, there is a very significant recruitment campaign, which so far as resulted in 165 new job offers for CDNT teams.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are 700 vacant posts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is so far, and the HSE is going to repeat the recruitment campaign with a view to offering more positions in this area, to ultimately properly resource the CDNT teams. I also believe we need to look at it from a human resources management perspective to make sure that people recruited into the CDNT teams have an environment that is conducive, which incentivises them and makes for a...