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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I might come back to Mr. O'Flynn. I just want the next speaker in. I am sorry but we have gone way over time. I am conscious that I must give everyone an opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I will ask my question and then bring a couple of members back in. We will then finish and go into private session. A couple of members have indicated, so they will have an opportunity. My question is simple and the witnesses can answer individually. There are 83 recommendations in the report. We are where we are. The witnesses heard the announcement today. What would each witness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the witnesses. Senator McCarthy indicated that he wished to contribute again. Deputy Hearne asked a question that I did not allow be answered, as we had gone over time. We might take that question again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I found its work extremely insightful and informative. The cutting-edge response is what we need. I said on my first day as Chair, and as a member of a Government party, that there is an emergency. We have to treat it as such and, if we do not, we will not make changes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I would be very open to further discussion. It is important. I want to hear every opinion. Everyone is not going to agree on everything, but we need to listen to everyone’s views and inform what we regard as the best way to address what is an emergency. That is the only way we are going to deal with it. I am conscious of Deputy Hearne’s question that was not answered. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank Mr. O'Flynn. We will leave the last comment to the former chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I think we have-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We will finish up on that. I thank all the representatives from the former commission. First, I thank them for the time they gave to the commission’s report, considering the amount of personal time they put into it. I found the report extremely insightful. It is disappointing that, after putting time into a report, they were dealt with in the manner they were dealt with, receiving a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I call Ms Sorcha Edwards, who is online.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of warmer homes scheme projects undertaken to date in 2025; the way in which this compares with the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30263/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on the operation of home energy upgrade loan scheme which is now more than a year in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the sanctioned autism class at a school (details supplied); to confirm the stage it is at within the school building unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29855/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current allocation of educational welfare officers in County Longford, noting that there is only one officer currently in situ; if and when an additional officer will be appointed to meet the demand in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29856/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to tackle absenteeism in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding levels for home school liaison officers and other measures to help ensure young people complete school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure the continuation of home help support at a location (details supplied) where service users have been informed that this support will cease at the end of June 2025, following a decision by the HSE; if he will outline the rationale for this decision and confirm whether an alternative plan is being developed to maintain...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the 2025 open call for farmer safety, health and wellbeing projects, which closed on 19 May 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeline for the assessment and announcement of successful projects under the farmer safety, health and wellbeing this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the types of projects submitted and indicate whether any are based in the Longford-Westmeath region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28545/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The witnesses are all very welcome. I think of the words "Groundhog Day". We are back here again after a couple of years. I was a member of the previous committee, along with Deputy Malcolm Byrne. Mr. Bakhurst has just made a comment about this never happening again. We were told a number of years ago that this would not happen again. It took a news agency and a letter of correspondence...