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- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (8 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under Housing for All to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the waiving of local authority “section 48” development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann water and...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Ah, stop now. Behave yourself for once, will you?
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance comes in here and makes a two-minute contribution to say Sinn Féin supports homeownership. Sinn Féin is opposing the help-to-buy grant, vacancy grants to bring vacant stock back into use so people can buy and own houses and do them up and the first home scheme. All three of those schemes are working well and all three would be removed by...
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps the Deputy misspoke.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Perhaps the Deputy wants to use the opportunity of this debate to tell the House and his colleagues when he will publish a housing plan at all. Perhaps the housing plan itself-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Is that the 2016 document?
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It is a housing plan that is as simple as what Sinn Féin put down in its motion tonight. Housing accounts for three pages of Sinn Féin's 52-page alternative budget.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: People would expect a lot more of Deputy Ó Broin than for him to be magicking up figures and magicking up houses across the board. They want him to say what it is he will do and not simply that Sinn Féin will do more.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin will not do more. It needs to ensure that its members across the Twenty-six Counties support the development of houses in their areas. We can add to an ongoing list of continued-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----and planned objections that Deputy Ó Broin's party colleagues are making across the country.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I am glad the Deputy has mentioned homelessness. I am trying to address the House in spite of the continued interruptions that have been made. Homelessness remains the number one priority for the Government.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: We are actually exiting more people.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It is strategic.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Do not twist my words. I will not be bullied into silence by the Deputy.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The fact of the matter is that the way to address homelessness is by increasing supply across the board. Whether the Deputy likes it-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Whether the Deputy likes it or not-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: A Cheann Comhairle, I would like to put on the record of the House that at every single stage where I have tried to address the points that have been raised-----
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputies opposite do not like what they are hearing.