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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Can I have one minute?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate the Minister will get back to me tomorrow. I read all of the task force minutes, although they were delivered late. I do my best to keep up. I am still waiting on the minutes of two meetings. They have never reached their targets. This is why the task force continues to sit, albeit under a new name. It has been sitting since 2018 because we had a housing emergency. It has...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am just talking about Galway.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 19 September 2024, the steps being taken to address the crisis in homelessness in Ireland, given that 14,486 people, including 4,419 children, were in need of emergency accommodation in August 2024; the steps planned to reduce the number of people in emergency accommodation; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What steps have been taken to address the crisis in homelessness? I will mention the figures again, though I think they are actually a little bit higher than this: 14,486 people, including 4,419 children, are in need of emergency accommodation. In Galway, there are no houses available under HAP and homeless services are at full capacity. I am not given to exaggeration; they are the facts...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the response but I repeat that homeless services in Galway are at full capacity. When someone comes into our office and we ring up, we are told they are at full capacity. Will the Minister of State deal with that? I appreciate he has brought in measures. I appreciate the tenant in situ scheme. The problem is the housing policy is not fit for purpose. It...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State's understanding goes some way towards the problem but not quite all the way. It arises from a direct letter that he got, and other people are in this position. While I will not mention names, they have a child who is nine years old and who has a severe disability and cannot walk. They met with Senator Nikki Bradley and the ambassador, and have tried all of that. They...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I see where the misunderstanding is. However, the question concerns building a replacement home “beside” a defective property. What the Minister of State has read out comes straight from the policy and they cannot do that because the scheme does not allow for that. What we are asking on behalf of this family and other families is that we make whatever amendment is necessary,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not want any more of this misunderstanding. It is side-by-side.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am sure Deputy Pringle will do that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There might have been some fault on our side. I understood it was done. It might have been belatedly.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógail) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Defective Building Materials (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Pringle, who has followed up this issue at every available opportunity but just unfortunately cannot be here at this moment. My question is what plans the Minister has to make the defective homes redress scheme accessible for the difficult cases where it is more feasible to build a replacement home beside a defective property and then demolish...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for this opportunity but share the same concerns as my colleague, Deputy Collins, about the particular motion. I welcome Sinn Féin's work on this and the opportunity to speak on it. If we take any report, such as the Housing Commission report, they ask for a reset of policy. We have never discussed this. I will take more recent reports, such as the report from...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please let the Minister finish.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Ó Broin, there is a chairperson here.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Can Members address each other through the Chair?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, you are using up the time. I am going to let the clock run.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There has been a technical issue with the distribution of the Government amendment. It is being emailed now and a hard copy will be available soon.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.