Results 41-60 of 281 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: An issue that is particularly important for my constituency of Dublin North West but affects the entire city is the MetroLink. Ireland is one of the richest countries in the EU, but Dublin is the only large western capital city that does not have a metro. The metro was first promised in 2005, some 20 years ago. It was ditched in 2010 by Fine Gael, so we are still waiting for the metro....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Minister of State for his response and engagement on this matter. To iterate the scale of this crisis of mould, damp and poor conditions, it was seven years ago that the European Committee of Social Rights found the Irish State to be in violation of human rights and failing to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure the right to housing of an adequate standard for families...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I wish to discuss housing maintenance, in particular the impact of mould and damp on tenants of social housing in my constituency and throughout the country. It is an area I have worked in for almost two decades in an academic capacity doing research on the impact of mould and damp on residents and tenants and working with communities. Mould and damp are endemic across social housing in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from the family of a child at risk of losing out on an appropriate school place in the coming academic year; if she will provide a definitive timeline for the new classes in the school in question to be completed; if she will account for the apparent delays in the...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have been extremely critical. The Minister has withdrawn funding from public-private partnership developments.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: We need funding for those schemes to deliver housing.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The motion is a very important one. It is putting forward solutions. We have heard criticism directly from the Taoiseach regarding the lack of solutions, but they are there, we have put them forward and we are putting them forward again tonight. The Opposition parties are bringing this motion to highlight that this housing crisis is no longer just a crisis. In fact, it has not been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: My first questions are for the Housing Agency. According to its analysis of the rent measures, average rents will rise. Could Mr. Whelan give an estimate of how much the agency sees average rents rising by in the next three to five years as a result of the new measures? When does it see rents falling as a result of the new measures? What is the agency's estimate of how many affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Based on that analysis, the Housing Agency still expects average rents to rise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does the Housing Agency have any plans to do assessment of need for affordable housing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I think that should feed into the new housing plan. As time is short, I want to move on to the Land Development Agency. How much capital did the LDA spend last year in delivering housing? How much does it intend to spend this year? Are there any viability risks or sustainability risks in the delivery of cost-rental housing? If the Government gave the LDA an additional €1.5...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Are there any viability risks in terms of delivering cost-rental housing particularly in relation to rents? If the LDA got an additional €1 billion or €2 billion, could it deliver more housing in the coming two to three years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Does Mr. Coleman have any concerns into the future over cost rental and the affordability of rents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Following on from previous questioners, in terms of the Land Development Agency and the issue of moderately constrained land and the potential of 56,000 homes, the timeframe Mr. Coleman has set out feels very long given the context of the crisis we are in. I again ask the question: what can be done to speed that up and bring that land on board? In particular, he said the land report relates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I am sorry.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to expand the e-scooter legislation which was introduced in May 2024 in order that it also involves a requirement for registration and insurance of an e-scooter, and statutory checks on the technical specification of an e-scooter. [32197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance further to interactions at the Joint Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport on 28 May 2025 (details supplied), if he will clarify his Department’s interpretation of the Revenue Commissioners v. Karshan (Midlands) Ltd t/a Domino’s Pizza [2023] judgment in the Supreme Court in respect of self-employment versus employment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide available data on the impact of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2027's Implementation Plan on people with intellectual disabilities, including stakeholder feedback on housing accessibility, waiting times, and unmet needs; how the Government plans to improve data collection and consultation...