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Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The charitable organisations are not saying they will be looked after.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The Minister of State does not trust Irish people any longer.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: It will do this by abolishing grants as it did last year.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: This is the real world and we are talking facts.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: My colleague, Senator Henry, said that she knew a person in Dublin who has been on the waiting list for nine years.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Where is the Senator getting her facts?

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: It was generated but badly spent.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: There is a selection here.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Is the Senator blaming the homeless?

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: While I thank everyone for their contributions to the debate, I thought Senator Brady's conscience was beginning to prick him when he proposed the amendment to the motion. I know he has a problem with his conscience due to what the Government is doing about housing.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The amendment is the greatest piece of hypocrisy we have seen from the Government side.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: This is the Government which, in its 2002 election manifesto, promised to eliminate poor quality housing and the housing waiting list, yet nothing has happened.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The motion states that we still have over 100,000 people waiting for housing but that figure only includes those who have made applications to local authorities. There are many genuine cases of people who require housing but who have not applied to their local authority for accommodation. They are living in substandard conditions and one has only to visit certain inner city and rural areas to...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: Have 50 been provided?

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: We have to look at the promises that were made about medical cards which were not delivered upon. The situation is similar in terms of housing. The hypocrisy was at its maximum today in the Minister of State's contribution. He was engaging in game playing when he talked about the announcement, which came into the public domain yesterday, of a funding package of €752 million for local...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: —if some carrot was not brought in for them in the run-up to next year's local elections. Fianna Fáil lost one of its own in my county of Longford over bad policy. That person has resigned and he is standing in next year's local election as an Independent. The Senators should check the record in my county of Longford.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: On the development charges, in his contribution the Minister said that the only people who will be affected by those are developers. What about the many young people who will try to provide a house for themselves and go through the process of applying for planning permission? That happens to a great extent in rural Ireland. When people make an application they take in hand the whole planning...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: I thought the Minister would have some consideration for those young people who took the initiative of coming off the local authority housing waiting lists to provide a house for themselves. I thought he would have the gumption to bring in a sliding scale for those people—

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: —but he has not. He has neglected them.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

James Bannon: The first obvious problem with this Government is its policy. The Government does not appear to have any policy on housing. It is a type of piecemeal add-on from the time it came back into office. My colleague, Senator Hayes, spoke about the poor quality of housing, the lack of central heating and so on. The Government has no policy on refurbishing the local authority housing stock.