Results 21-40 of 150 for speaker:Rory Hearne
- Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: This planning framework is important but, unfortunately, it is insufficient and inadequate in a number of areas, which I will talk about presently. I wish to discuss the housing emergency because it is linked to this. It is linked to what is absent from the planning objectives. I refer to the absence of an objective to deliver affordable housing and any assessment of what scale of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: The housing crisis is an absolute disaster. The Taoiseach spoke about homelessness earlier. I want to raise this issue. It is very clear from the data that the main cause of homelessness is evictions from the private rental sector. There is no lack of clarity in the figures on that. Some 30,000 households have been evicted since the Government linked lifted the eviction ban in 2023....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: Yes, we can. He was a CEO who oversaw the eviction of thousands of people from NAMA receiver properties. He contributed to the housing crisis. The Government will now appoint him as a housing fixer. The only doors that will be battered down, as the Minister said, will be the doors of people who are facing eviction. It is absolutely inappropriate. The Taoiseach can shake his head. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: There were one and a half-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: I am not shouting. I am just-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: It is not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: That is not true, actually. The Taoiseach can take that back.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: The Taoiseach just said I was nothing of the sort. I was an academic in Maynooth. That is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: This is the same nonsense. The Taoiseach is trying to take me down. My academic-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: I am, but I was also an academic in Maynooth. The Taoiseach said I am nothing of the sort of a housing expert.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: The Taoiseach did. He said I was nothing of the sort.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: There is also housing policy. That is an expertise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: That is part of housing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: Yes, it does. Housing policy is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: The Taoiseach is making derogatory comments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17124/25]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: Somebody got a grant for €1.5 million home.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: How is that affordable?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: 1224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the amount of funding allocated local authorities to support the Social Housing Secondhand Acquisitions Programme in 2024 and 2025, by local authority; the proportion of the funding that is already committed in the 2025 allocation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19405/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)
Rory Hearne: 1373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a disability allowance claim (details supplied); if he will investigate the length of time it is taking for a decision to be made on the claim; when the social welfare inspector received the claim for the purpose of a means report to be conducted; the timeframe for a decision to be made...