Results 61-80 of 218 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Returning to the delivery of the targets, of that 50,000 figure, how many should be social and affordable to meet housing need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: There is no part of the country that does not need affordable housing, is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association (20 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I have a couple of follow-up questions. I appreciate the time the witnesses are giving today. Do the witnesses have a figure on how much local authority-owned land there is that is currently zoned for residential development? If they do not, maybe they can provide it. Do they know if they can provide that information? That is separate from what they said about potential sites. There is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: We hear today that rents are up again 5.5% nationally. The new average rent in Dublin is €2,177 per month. A worker earning €30,000 per year would have to spend their entire take-home pay to cover that amount and that still would not be enough. Renters across this country are struggling. How can they keep paying higher rents? They are stressed and terrified about the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Will the report be published?

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: To back up my colleague, we very much support this Bill. I thank our colleagues in People Before Profit for introducing it. This is important legislation. Collective bargaining is key in terms of Ireland and our economy. When we look at it, the Irish economic model has, unfortunately, been built on an undermining of workers' rights by not ensuring collective bargaining is in place. When...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1224 of 29 April 2025, which provided a tabular breakdown of funding that has been recouped to date, if he could more specifically provide details of the level of funding that was committed to but may not have been recouped, or drawn down, yet by the local authorities; and if he will...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. We will be supporting it and opposing the Government's amendment. This is a vital discussion. Unfortunately, it feels as if every week, we are discussing a new blockage to providing housing. The incredible thing is that each week, this new barrier is responded to by the Government and the Department of Housing, Local Government and...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Minister and my colleagues for the opportunity to speak on this issue. As an educator who worked as an associate professor in the area of social science in Maynooth University, I emphasise the importance of social policy and social sciences in education. I worked at Maynooth University, but there is also a university in my constituency, namely, DCU. It provides high-quality...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I raise the case of a five-year-old autistic boy with additional needs in my constituency who is attending junior infants. His mother Grainne contacted me recently and their story is revealing of a system that is badly failing children with additional needs. After months of school distress, hours of work with the school, mediation and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is SNA, and ANA as well. The school is saying it does not have-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the number of acquisitions made under social housing second hand acquisitions programme in 2024 and to date in 2025, by property size (one bedroom, two bedroom etc), by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23514/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Service (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy for listing party 1 and party 2 on marriage certificate documentation; if this policy differs between same-sex and heterosexual couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23461/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 879. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to Santry Garda station, by grade, at the end of April 2025, or the latest date available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Ballymun Garda station, by grade, at the end of April 2025, or the latest date available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23696/25]

Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Business of Select Committee (8 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: I echo Deputy Ó Broin's comments. I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his appointment. Housing is the biggest social and economic issue facing the country. We need to work together to work on solutions. While we might have differences, I think this committee is probably the most important committee that will meet during the term of this Dáil. We have massive work ahead of us,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (7 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person or body that currently regulates commercial drone operations in Ireland; the way in which the regulator is ensuring compliance; the process by which residents can complain to the regulator if the operator is not adhering to current regulations; the actions the regulator can take in cases of non-compliance; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (7 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites which have been identified appears on the annual map for 2025 residential zoned land tax published on 31 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22018/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions Act) 2024 to earmark certain cost rental units for local key workers; the number of units his Department intends to earmark for key workers per year; the location of the housing units; the cost per unit; the timeline for when these units will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2025)

Rory Hearne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit for the response. I appreciate the work being done in our health services across the country. We have to accept that the care being provided, even though doctors, nurses and administrative staff are doing their best, is not up to what is needed in all cases. Too many people in this country are left waiting on trolleys, including in Beaumont,...