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Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister for facilitating this debate. I do not want to focus on individual issues, initiatives and schemes. I will focus on the big picture in terms of the acute housing crisis we are in. To me the only solution is ramping up supply across all forms, whether new builds, reuse of existing buildings and better utilisation of existing buildings such as over office, over shop and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank each of the witnesses for coming in and joining us online today. It is greatly appreciated. I thank them for their work on the Housing Commission as well, which is also very much appreciated. It was a very extensive body of work setting out more than 80 recommendations and so on. It was a very substantive piece of work. It is all about housing output, housing activation and how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: There is a strong team coming through in terms of certainty and longer term planning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: My question was broad and goes to the heart of the report in terms of a series of different actions. I hope to come back in again later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: How much time have I got?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I will try and focus on two specific items, if I can. I will go back to Dr. Lyons first. Deputy Ó Broin, in terms of the scale of the challenge, stated that it is not realistic to turn the corner in five years necessarily but if you take away the deficit, what is the annual demand for housing? What would Dr. Lyons put the figure at? Setting aside the deficit, what is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Therefore, the deficit is growing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: The output now is not reaching the demand now and, therefore, the deficit is growing. That is the scale of the challenge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: My time is going here, if Ms King does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I am sorry for interrupting Ms King. The scale of the issue is one thing but I wanted to focus on apartment building because if we are to achieve anywhere near the kind of output we need, we have to get development of density. We need traditional houses, semi-detached family homes, etc., but we also need apartment blocks to start happening, and they are not happening. Across Europe,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I want to pick up on the issue of viability again, which I raised previously. I heard Mr. O'Flynn refer to subsidies for apartment blocks and so on. That is needed because of where we are now. In the long term, though, if we cannot make development viable, then we are doomed to failure. That is the bottom line and the nub of the issue. If it is not viable to build, we are in trouble. We...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a new school building for a school (details supplied). [29068/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that the €1,500 cap on educational supports for councillors undertaking QQI-accredited courses was set in 2014 and has not been adjusted since, if he will acknowledge that the real value of this support has effectively decreased by approximately €500 due to inflation, representing a 33% reduction in value...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 1440. To ask the Minister for Health urgent approval will be granted for the drug vyloy (zolbetuximab) which is used for certain types of gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 1438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on a waiting list for orthodontic assessment and for orthodontic treatment in Cork city and county; the steps being taken to reduce these waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (10 Jun 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 1442. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person who holds a medical card be reimbursed for the cost of their monthly prescription for the drug stelazine 5mg as it is currently not available under the general medical service scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29675/25]