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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I look forward to engaging with the Minister and his Department in order that we might find a way to enhance what was intended in the context of the overall aim of the Living City initiative, create a vibrant city and capitalise on the potential of Limerick's Georgian quarter.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I speak on the help-to-buy scheme?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The help-to-buy scheme is there to help people to buy homes. People come to all of us in our constituencies and we know that the help-to-buy scheme has been of major benefit in the context of young people buying their homes. I find it contradictory where, in one breath, Sinn Féin proposes that it wants people to get homes, and yet it opposes a measure that directly benefits people by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The amendment is to oppose the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is one thing that cannot be done.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Vice Chairman might be confusing us but we are certainly not confusing him.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Tá. Is Deputy Farrell pushing the section to a vote?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Then that is it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will first deal with the amendments to section 5 and then put the question on the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I speak on the help-to-buy scheme?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the commitment from the Minister of State and that the review is under way. When will the review be complete? The Minister of State must write to local authorities, as from my perspective in Limerick, local authorities seem to be taking the view that if they give planning permissions in line with local area plans of the order of 35 units per hectare or less, it will be overturned...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State for attending this evening's debate. I have raised this matter previously. Ultimately, we need to build homes, but we also need to ensure the national density guidelines are in keeping with ensuring that we get sustainable development. The national density guidelines recommend between 35 and 50 units per hectare. In many cases they are well above that now....

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the publication of this legislation. Along with my colleagues on the transport and communications committee, which I chair, I engaged in pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. We are very much involved in it. E-scooters were not included in the original draft where pre-legislative scrutiny was concerned. We covered the matter as best we could. We ask that, in order to have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (9 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of received and granted applications for both residential and commercial properties under the living city initiative for Limerick city; his future plans to review and expand the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54420/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (4 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53828/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined [53827/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53829/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am sharing time with Deputy Durkan. I am going to focus on a specific aspect of the Bill. I have raised this matter previously with the Minister and his officials. It relates to the living city initiative, particularly in the context of Limerick city. When the initiative was introduced in 2015, €20 million was budgeted to be drawn down by people availing of the scheme. By...

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Faint praise.