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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Le do thoil, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----because this Government supports homeownership. I support homeownership and the Deputy does not. It is very clear because all of the measures-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is simply not true. Homeownership is falling.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He wants the help-to-buy grant of €30,000 abolished and taken away from them.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling and house prices are rising.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He wants the first home scheme and vacancy grant abolished. There has been no housing plan whatsoever from Deputy Ó Broin, only some leasehold arrangements where people do not actually even own the land on which they buy their homes, or they are going to have to restrict to whom they sell the home.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling and house prices are rising.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: There will be over 6,000 this year. It is real progress, Deputy Ó Broin.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Homeownership is falling and house prices are rising. That is the Minister's legacy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)
Catherine Martin: Absolutely. That is the intent here. The aim of the two funds proposed is to accelerate the provision of open access sports equipment in biodiversity-rich community settings. It seeks to provide low-cost sports capital and equipment grants for the purchase and installation of that permanent sports equipment that can be placed on land which, as the Deputy is saying, is just lying there and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I focused on the biodiversity element in my first contribution. I think the outdoor sports equipment fund is excellent too. I would like to see an intergenerational focus. We see many active retirement groups using the outdoor exercise equipment. It is great to see that happening. The places I see it happen most successfully are where they are co-located with playground equipment. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)
Catherine Martin: The programme for Government sets out a target for overall participation in sport to reach at least 60% of the population by 2027. It has key commitments such as promoting the value of physical activity as part of everyday life, adopting a lifelong perspective underpinned by physical literacy and placing a strong emphasis on swimming, cycling, walking and running, which are especially...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)
Question No. 12 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Tourism Industry
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: 13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can outline any plans, including any additional funding, that will be made available to Drogheda to ensure the survival of the tourism industry in the area given the loss of tourist accommodation in the town in recent years. [24352/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: I ask the Minister if she can outline any plans, including any additional funding, that will be made available specifically to Drogheda to ensure the survival of the tourism industry in the area, given the loss of tourist accommodation in the town in recent years.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Catherine Martin: The importance of the tourism sector to the Irish economy and our communities is well understood. Drogheda is a key part of the ancient destination experience development plan, which is the Fáilte Ireland roadmap for the development of tourism in Louth and Meath, including the Boyne Valley and environs. In budget 2024, I secured total funding of €216 million for the tourism...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: The Minister referred to the €10 million support scheme that is open. That is a mere drop in the ocean compared with what is actually needed. That is for the entire country. The Minister is aware that Drogheda has lost its largest hotel, the D Hotel, and that is the second hotel it has lost. I hope she is aware that the number of bedrooms available for tourist accommodation in the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Catherine Martin: I have already mentioned the importance of the tourism sector to the Irish economy and specifically to Drogheda. The Deputy mentioned the €10 million but in budget 2024, there is a total of €216 million in funding for the sector, which would allow for continued support for tourism development in Ireland for local and overseas visitors. Within that €216 million, we had...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: If accommodation in Drogheda has reduced by 61% and we are left with only 91 tourist accommodation beds, that is a problem caused directly by Government policy. We need the Government to revitalise the town, attract investment and solve the accommodation issue that is crippling tourism in the town. Love Drogheda BID had asked that the Government work with stakeholders in the town to fix...