Results 8,061-8,080 of 25,732 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The pandemic does not matter, no?
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I have sat here since 9.12 a.m. and listened to most of the Opposition contributions. There has been nothing new. There has been no new policy.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I think Deputy Barry has in probably the best way just explained and given an example of the simple sloganeering and vitriol that has been the main part of this debate today. I wish to turn to the facts, which are that everyone on these Government benches, and I assume everyone in this House, wants to do their level best to tackle the housing crisis. I say that as the Minister responsible...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: We will not be diverted from the job we have to do because we have a responsibility as the elected Government of this country to make real strides in housing. I refer to some facts which some will not like. In the first year of Housing for All, 30,000 new homes were delivered, which is indisputable. There are more new social homes than since 1975, which is also indisputable. Affordable...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----and 253 affordable homes in Ballymastone, Donabate. That is replicated across the country. I am used to that by Sinn Féin, the party of objectors. I have a lot of regard for our Labour Party colleagues and have found them constructive in the main in the past-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome Deputy Sherlock. The Labour Party should not go down that road. Deputy Bacik's claim that the Labour Party will deliver 1 million new homes over ten years and to then say they are retrofitted or refurbished homes is something people will see through. The Labour Party should not go down the road that their colleagues in Sinn Féin have.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Time and again, Sinn Féin, ably supported by the Social Democrats-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----will oppose every single measure this Government takes.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: To give an example for the serial objector and interrupter Deputy Ó Broin-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----every measure for first-time buyers, such as the help to buy grant of €30,000, which has been availed of by 37,000 households, has been opposed.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The first homes scheme, which has helped more first-time buyers since 2014 - some 1,200 already in eight months - was also opposed by Deputy Ó Broin. Inexplicably, Deputy Ó Broin and his party opposed grants of up to €50,000 to bring vacant homes back into use, which the Labour Party said it wants to do.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Those are the facts and the Deputy does not like them. I say to Deputy O'Reilly to stop objecting to housing in Fingal.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I am sorry that we were slightly delayed; there was a vote in the Lower House. I am sure the Senators will forgive me.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: There were no pairings, whatever is happening today. I welcome the opportunity to update Members on the progress the Government has made on housing, particularly since the publication of Housing for All in September 2021. It has been 19 months since the plan was published. Although we are operating in an ever-changing landscape, which most people appreciate, real progress has been made. It...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true. That is a base target.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not correct.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy's party opposed the establishment of the Land Development Agency.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Does Deputy Ó Broin agree with the CSO figure now?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Mar 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I received Government approval on 18 January to draft legislation to establish supports for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013. This legislation will provide a statutory basis for the establishment of a remediation scheme aimed at protecting the safety and...