Results 21-40 of 106 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2025)

Rory Hearne: 670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with respect to the 14,221 children who are now overdue an assessment of need, the engagement she has made with therapists and professional stakeholders to clarify how long an average assessment takes; the plans in place to engage therapists and professional stakeholders in future reforms, including defining...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (27 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 5 February 2025, the measures he refers to that were introduced in 2023 to support borrowers who wish, and are in a position, to switch their mortgage; to provide any data his Department might have on how those measures are functioning; to outline any specifics in those measures that relate primarily to people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: No, it is the institutional funds.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: Figures for house prices came out yesterday. We are now seeing astronomical house prices and the highest rate of increase in inflation for eight years. The median price of a home is now €420,000. What nurse, garda or bus driver can afford these house prices? What is the Government doing by way of an emergency reaction to the housing crisis, particularly in the area of affordable...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: They say there are delays.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: There is nothing stopping the Minister of State sharing the time with them.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is very clear that this Government is taking us away from the cherished neutrality we have had as a country and as a republic. Our neutrality is something that is core to what it means to be Irish today. It is not a passive thing but something that needs to be chosen and protected. What the Government is doing is shattering that neutrality. Arguably, it is making this decision without...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: They did not vote for Michael Lowry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: We did not see Micheal Lowry in the manifesto.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: Come on.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 5 February 2025, for a status update on her Department’s efforts to secure the necessary statutory approvals for the development of the permanent buildings for a school (details supplied); if she will provide further updates relating to the project; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the tenant-in-situ scheme; if his Department will advise on the best course of action for the family to take in this case; if his Department will liaise with Dublin City Council regarding this matter in order to clarify the scheme’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the current status of the tenant-in-situ scheme; if the scheme is still in operation; the funding allocated to the scheme in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number of housing units purchased via the scheme in 2023 and 2024, by local authority, in tabular form; if he will provide the guidelines issued to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant housing officers, per local authority, in terms of full-time equivalent posts, in tabular form; the expenditure per local authority on addressing housing vacancy in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of HAP, by local authority, broken down by household dwelling type and type of HAP payment (including discretionary HAP payment), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14143/25]

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is my daughter's sixth birthday today. I think about the world and the Europe we are creating for her and all the children, living and those to come. It is incredible that the project of the European Union, which was supposed to be about peace and improving quality of life for the people living there, now appears to be about to become a project of war. This will not make Europe safer or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reverse the decision to restrict eligibility and funding for the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: This question relates to the tenant in situ scheme, which we discussed last night. Will the Minister reconsider the framing and limitations he is putting on the scheme? While it is welcome that he is committing to continuing with the scheme, this will not actually involve a continuation of the scheme that has been in place because the new limitations will change the nature of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: While I appreciate that the Minister is committing to continuing the scheme, will he provide the evidence to back up why he is targeting it? Why is it not being provided on a general basis in order to give local authorities the flexibility and funding to respond to whatever household is facing eviction or homelessness? Why does it have to be only families? Why is the Minister saying-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I know, but prioritisation means local authorities will have to decide. Local authorities will have a certain budget and will be able to purchase properties and keep some people in their homes, but not others. We are in this system of prioritisation rather than a general ability to apply the scheme. That means restricting some local authorities in their ability to do it.