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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ireland's recognition of the state of Palestine is an historic step in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and human rights for the Palestinian people. I commend all those who campaigned for this over many decades. Today, the people of Gaza continue to endure slaughter, displacement and starvation inflicted upon them by an Israel that acts with impunity. Israel's attacks on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seven months of public outrage and protests have finally forced the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. I hope that is going to be accompanied by sanctions. I wish to discuss another protest that will happen this Saturday at the Customs House over the Government’s failed housing policies. This comes at an appropriate moment, given that the Housing Commission has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: We will publish the Housing Commission report today. It is a bit old-fashioned, but it is useful to read things before commenting on them with such authority. Before the Deputy wraps himself in the recommendations of the report, I recommend that he read them. I received the report last night. There are 83 recommendations, 500 actions and subactions, 400 pages of text and three years of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has probably read it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I have read it because that is the useful thing to do-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not had a chance yet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: -----when one is Taoiseach. When one gets a report the night before, one reads it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave it to the press, not to us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I would advise the Deputy to read it when it is published, too, and then we can have a more informed discussion on it because the report very clearly talks about the need for diverse funding models. Yes, we need and have record levels of Exchequer development, but this idea of private investment and diverse sources of investment being the devil incarnate is not what the report has found. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For those who are not convinced by the Taoiseach's answer, the housing protest will be outside Customs House at 2.30 p.m. this Saturday. I hope people will come out onto the streets for it. No one disputes that there will be a private sector in housing, but the private sector should not be subsidised at the expense of delivering the social and affordable housing that it is incapable of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is picking one line out of approximately 400 pages of a report, which I accept he has not had an opportunity to get or read yet, but what I would suggest-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been phoning the journalist to try to get it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: We will be publishing it today. When the Deputy sees the actions, he will see that many of them are underway. We agree with many of them, by the way. Many of them are in line with Government policy. Many of them are things that we are working on right now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down a land price registry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy O'Callaghan will fully agree.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down our proposals on a land price registry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy Boyd Barrett will agree either. I do not think it will be a case of every single recommendation meeting the satisfaction of every political viewpoint in this House but there are good ideas here. We need good ideas. We need to be open to listening to new ideas. We should never be so complacent or arrogant to suggest, when it comes to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is a great line, but unfortunately the graph shows that you are wrong. Look at the increase in social housing building since my party came to office. You are, yet again, wrong.