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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: I also call for there to be no guillotine on the Planning and Development Bill. It is obviously extremely important as regards how our planning process will work in the years ahead. There were weeks of Committee Stage debate but that will now all be condensed into eight hours or so with a guillotine on Report Stage. It is clear that we need to give this Bill as long as it needs for debate.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too oppose this proposal, as I did at the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday week. This is very substantial legislation that will have significant ramifications from all angles. Months were spent on the Bill on Committee Stage, where there were hours and hours of debate. A great many amendments, including amendments from the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I echo and support the calls for more time to be given for the Planning and Development Bill because it is vitally important. For legislation that will be of such importance right across the country to be guillotined like this is wrong.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: In case people at home will think this has been in any way rushed, this Bill had 120 hours of debate on Committee Stage. It also went through pre-legislative scrutiny. When Deputy Peter Burke was the Minister of State with responsibility for planning, many meetings were held with various stakeholders. At some point, we need to get on and pass a law that is going to reform our planning...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: Is our job just to pass laws or to debate them?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: We need to roll up the sleeves and get the job done. We are doing four and a half hours today and eight hours tomorrow. People need homes. We need our planning system to be reformed. This Government is going to actually make progress on housing, while some in the Opposition are trying to obstruct that progress.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach address the question on carers?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: On carers, I am happy for that to be discussed at the Business Committee. There is no time this week for the reasons we have just outlined.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What about next week then?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy can raise that at the Business Committee. I have no difficulty with a debate being held.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is the Taoiseach agreeable to a debate taking place next week?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I am not sure I am on the Business Committee but the Deputy can raise it there.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Taoiseach is the decision-maker on the schedule.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Are the proposed arrangements for the week's business agreed to?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Thomas Pringle: There is no doubt the scheme is open and, as the Taoiseach said, there have been 1,500 applications, but thousands upon thousands of houses have to be redressed. It is a scheme that will last 25 or 30 years, at the rate the Government is going at present. It is a scheme that does not meet the needs of many people. There are people in their 50s and early 60s who are looking at having a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: I gave the Deputy figures to the end of February but I have just seen that to the end of April we have had 1,644 applications to the previous scheme and 436 to the enhanced scheme. That is just for the record because it is important to give the most up-to-date figures. Today, we took-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Thomas Pringle: It is 29 years at the last-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy knows this is a serious issue. I am trying to respond with the seriousness the issue deserves, if that is okay. Today, the Government took another decision that will benefit householders in the Deputy's constituency to the tune of tens of thousands of euro. These are substantive decisions that were taken. When we are in government, we do not just point out the problems; we...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)