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Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a pity I did not have a copy his statement. He referred to a figure of €200 million. Considering there are 146,000 social housing units, that amounts to only €1,300 per unit. The Government will not get much bang for that buck. Considering the position of a lot of people who are living in flat complexes in Dublin city or other houses that are badly built or not fit for...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: These are the words of a county council tenant: The overflow in our attic was fitted incorrectly, so eventually it burst and came down through the lights in my bathroom and down through the ceiling into the sitting room and kitchen. There is water damage in the ceilings, both upstairs and downstairs. The extractor fan is hanging by one screw. These are the words of a city council...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

John Brady: The single largest landlord in the State is the Government. The least accountable landlord in the State is the Government. The worst offender in terms of ignoring its responsibilities to its tenants is the Government. Tens of thousands of tenants live in substandard and badly maintained accommodation across the State. In Wicklow, I deal with families and children weekly who are in damp,...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. The Government is not opposing the motion but will make clear the concerns being raised are being addressed through the various stock improvement programmes run by the Department and the steps being taken to move from a response based on repair and maintenance as problems arise to a strategic and informed planned maintenance approach to the...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: Social housing repair and maintenance is probably the second most common issue I hear about in my constituency office next to those seeking assistance and advice in obtaining a local authority house in the first place. Many of the people who come in bring in photographs or send me videos or invite me out to their houses to see the conditions they are living in, which are absolutely dreadful....

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I cannot tell the Minister of State how many times I have been in the following situation: I knock on a door and say, "How are you? We are canvassing for Sinn Féin. What issues are important to you?" The person says, "Come in here 'til I show you." They bring me into the house, upstairs and into the kitchen and they show me black all along the walls. I can feel the cold. I touch...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: This is an issue across the entire State. I am sure every one of us who is out canvassing or anywhere else will have seen the situation in local authority houses and other houses. There are many HAP tenants in privately-owned houses that are in very damp and very poor condition. The tenants have serious respiratory and other problems as a consequence. I recently visited a HAP tenant in a...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: In today's Ireland, hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and families face an impossible situation. They are confronted with a housing crisis of unprecedented proportion. Successive Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Governments have utterly failed on housing. Bad planning, mismanagement and downright dereliction have resulted in one of the worst shortages of social and affordable...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Sin críochnaíonn na ráitis. That concludes the statements. I acknowledge the presence of the soon-to-be-appointed ambassador from Palestine, the first ever. She has sat through this discussion for almost four hours, which is not easy to do given what is ongoing. I commend her on that.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — housing policy is not only about the number of homes delivered but the quality of those homes for tenants living in them; — as the State's largest landlord, Government has a particular responsibility to ensure, through funding for local authorities, that social housing tenants live in good quality homes; —...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Where is the senior Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, for the discussion of this very important motion? The man who is responsible for housing in this State does not even have the decency to come to the House this evening. Absolute contempt is being shown to the hundreds of thousands of people who live in 176,000 social homes when the Minister does not have the decency to turn up. It is a...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Chris Andrews: The public housing stock is the forgotten element in the Government’s housing policy. Those living in the flats and houses owned by Dublin City Council already know that. I do not know a block of flats managed by Dublin City Council that does not have serious issues, whether public health issues, dampness, mould, neglect, leaks, floods, electrical faults or rats - the list goes on...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Palestinian head of mission, who is soon to be the Palestinian ambassador to the House. We look forward to working well with her over many years to come. Our recognition of the State of Palestine today fits three fundamental purposes, and indeed many more. First, it makes clear our view that it is time that Palestine takes its place amongst the nations of the world and...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador here today and everyone who was in the Gallery earlier. I will start by sending solidarity to the 1 million Palestinians besieged by the Israeli onslaught in Rafah. Ireland and the world is standing in shock and horror at what we are seeing unfold. Now we must come together to force Israel to stop this genocide. It was a proud day last week...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: What value is given to life? If recognising Palestine saves one life, is it not worth it? History is a funny thing when you look at it one way. When you look back it is something that is taken for granted. When Hitler was on his reign, the media said that humanity would never see something like this again. Then we had Rwanda when the Hutus and the Tutsis slaughtered one another and...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Harkin is not with us. Deputies Pringle, Connolly and Collins are sharing time.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: All eyes are on Rafah as we are forced to watch in horror the utter brutality of Israel's attack on the Palestinian people. The level of bloodshed and devastation the Palestinian people have had to endure, especially in recent months, is unimaginable. Israel's bombing of a camp of tents of displaced people is indefensible. The images and stories coming out of Rafah are truly gut-wrenching....

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this. I have just over three minutes so I want to be as precise as possible. First, I welcome the Palestinian ambassador, who in recent months has acted with utter professionalism in the face of genocide and the slaughter of her people. I have found her at every stage to be utterly professional while full of humanity in contrast to the...