Results 41-60 of 106 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is not true that the tenant in situ scheme is being continued as it was. There has been a change to it. In the context of the removal of the funding for refurbishment, will the Minister reconsider this and, in the context of the circular that is to be issued, allocate local authorities funding for refurbishment under the scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent CSO data showing that the number of new homes approved annually fell by over 21% in 2024; his plans to introduce an alternative policy measure to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12895/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: In terms of the planning applications, we have seen a significant fall in applications. The figures are down over 21% annually, and apartments even further. What are the Minister's plans to address this? In particular, does it not show that the Minister's housing policy and Housing for All as a policy has not worked, that new measures are required and, in fact, that the reliance on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I do not see the radical reset in the Minister's response that the Housing Commission called for and the Minister himself agreed was needed. We know the definition of insanity is continuing the same policy or same approach and expecting a different outcome. On the question about the planning and apartments, there is over-reliance on institutional investors. Institutional investors invest...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Minister is repeating the same tropes that the Taoiseach repeats that we have had no alternatives. If the Minister looked at our election manifesto, he is correct that we talked about using private investment but it is the particular type of private investment. The Taoiseach is also spinning this by saying we are against private investment. We are not against private investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the fact more than 88,000 homes are currently vacant, in view of data showing that over 2,000 homes were liable for the vacant property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to accelerate and scale up the delivery of affordable housing via local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely and vital motion. It is deeply disappointing to see that the Government is not supporting it and has put forward an amendment that will take away from the point of the motion. I am deeply annoyed and frustrated by this Government's failure to act on homelessness and to treat it like an emergency. A home is one of the most...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 43. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme office in respect of addressing one of its six priority areas: child and family homelessness. [6426/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to establish a cabinet sub-committee on the delivery of Metrolink. [6425/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Traveller Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 96. To ask the Taoiseach if there are plans to appoint a Minister of State for Traveller accommodation within the lifetime of the Thirty-fourth Dáil. [11064/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Communications (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 382. To ask the Minister for Finance to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to outline the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from his Department will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by his Department at the event; to list which events...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 383. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the details of the involvement of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) at a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); to outline the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from the ISIF will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by the ISIF at the event; to list which events...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dublin 11 that expressed an interest in opening a special class in the years 2023-2025; the number of these applications that were refused; the reasons given for any such refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12338/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dublin 11 that were contacted by the National Council for Special Education in relation to the opening of a special class; the number of these schools that declined to open a special class; if her Department is aware of the reasons for any of these schools declining the opening of a special class; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 817. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the representatives from his Department who will be attending a conference in France in March 2025 (details supplied); the contents of the addresses and speeches that representatives from his Department will be making to the conference, including material to be distributed by his Department at the event; to list...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been made aware of issues relating to the provision of emergency replacement mobiles or caravans to Traveller families affected by storm Éowyn; if his Department has engaged with local authorities in areas worst affected by storm Éowyn in this respect; the anticipated timescale for dealing with requests...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 843. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for emergency replacement mobile homes or caravans for Traveller families that have been received from local authorities by his Department in 2025, by local authority, in tabular form; the number of these applications that have been approved, rejected or pending, by local authority; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Culture Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 947. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place for Ireland to sign the Council of Europe FARO Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (2005) (details supplied); if there is a timetable for this; the reason it has not been signed up to this point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding widows pension (details supplied); the alternative supports, if any, available to the person. [10591/25]