Results 4,101-4,120 of 25,713 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: People can clearly see-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----delivery on cost rental, for which we legislated and tenants are in place now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: If I could say, a Leas Cheann Comhairle, this is a tactic that Deputy Ó Broin regularly uses to try to talk me down. He will not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He can try-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He can try to deny progress-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Not only does he deny progress, he blocks progress.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: There are no measures whatsoever from Sinn Féin, no plan and no money.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It remains the single most important challenge we face, no less so for those families and individuals who find themselves in emergency accommodation. Supporting those individuals and families is a priority. Critical to that support is enabling households to exit homelessness and increasing housing supply. Almost 12,000 new social homes were delivered last year, a massive increase in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome and congratulate the Minister of State, Alan Dillon, on his appointment to the Department. Alan has a specific and detailed interest in housing, and I look forward to working with him, as I am sure colleagues across the House do. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for the question. As he knows, under Housing for All, which is the plan that we have actually published, that is fully...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am very happy to stand over our plan, its delivery and its record. That stands in sharp contrast to Sinn Féin's lack of a plan and its lack of alternatives in this space. It has never produced or costed a housing plan. Take the vacant property grant. The Deputy says he is not opposed to it, but he allocated no moneys to it whatsoever in the Sinn Féin alternative budget. To...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not misrepresenting anything. What I am doing is presenting real progress. We had no affordable homes here. First-time buyers are buying at a rate we have not seen since 2006. I and this Government believe in homeownership; you do not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: But you actually do not, Eoin.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I did not interrupt once.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It might be easier. Take the local authority affordable purchase scheme. More than 4,000 affordable homes have been approved under that scheme already. Sixteen hundred-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy. I want to say that his amendment here would affect all planning applications. It would reduce the period set at five years to two. There are certainly issues with extensions of permissions, and the Deputy will see in this grouping that I intend to bring forward amendment No. 729, which is about limitations on the extension of duration of permissions. That would mean...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is only if the project has commenced.