Results 81-100 of 167 for speaker:Paula Butterly

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I will suspend the House for five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I accept that it is only one factor but everybody here has said that it is an important factor. I agree with everybody here that supply is key to the housing issue. While it is maybe not a case of removing it, we might lessen that cap. We need the money to come in from financial investors abroad to invest for the long term. That will not happen if we frighten them off with language like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: The third issue is small businesses which are small builders. We have heard again and again about them not getting access to finance. The recommendation here is about consolidating building and economies of scale, which is fine in large urban centres, but in more regional areas, the small and medium-sized builder will be building 30 or 50 houses. Larger developers will not come to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: Does Mr. Cassidy not believe at this stage that it is nearly too prudent? It has gone from in the past being maybe not prudent enough to now being too prudent and that is hindering, especially outside large urban areas, building in the regions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the witnesses for the opening statements. I will start by going back to the rent caps, if they do not mind. Naturally enough, my colleagues here will have argued about increasing the rent caps rather than decreasing them to protect the tenant. I cannot remember the country, but is there not a basis for saying that if the cap was removed or increased, then over a relatively short...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: Everybody is agreeing on an awful lot of things today, which is rather unusual. Everybody has agreed on streamlining the planning process. I would like to hear the witnesses' views on how far we go with that streamlining. You will often hear that the biggest problem with planning is objections and the process, from local authority, to An Bord Pleanála, to judicial review and sometimes...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Chair. I had not anticipated saying anything.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I am absolutely honoured and thankful to everybody to be on this committee. It is one of the most important committees within Leinster House and the Oireachtas. I look forward to working collaboratively with everybody and bringing forward all the different legislation over the next term, which will be vital.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 759. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to extend the long-Covid scheme for public health workers impacted by long-Covid past June 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27526/25]

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

Paula Butterly: I wish to apologise to the Chair, as I had to attend another committee meeting for the first hour of this meeting, so I missed the opening statements. I am from County Louth. We have the two very large towns of Dundalk and Drogheda. I have found that the challenges in housing are divided between the urban and rural areas. In rural areas, the challenge is one-off housing. In urban...

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

Paula Butterly: Will Mr. Taaffe give me some examples of where it is working? We talk very much about town centres dying and we are then developing these new towns on the outskirts of existing towns that are struggling to have a vibrant town centre.

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

Paula Butterly: I have one quick question. The witnesses talked about CPOs. I have always been an advocate for the compulsory sale orders, and considering the challenges you come across with CPOs, whether for recreational infrastructure or, to be quite honest, the onus or burden put on local authorities to follow that lengthy process, what would Mr. Taaffe's opinion be with regard to CSOs rather than that?...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Business of Joint Committee (20 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: On my behalf and, I presume, that of my colleagues, I wish the Cathaoirleach well in his term. There are three freshman members of the committee. I am heartened to see there are also more seasoned politicians around the table. I hope they will guide us. Two of the most important aspects of this committee are transparency and impartiality. I am looking forward to seeing the work plan,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy Guidelines (20 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the huge concerns in the farming and rural communities regarding the haphazard planning applications for solar farms, which will result in the reduction of agricultural land available for use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the status of a Driving test centre for Drogheda town, if he will provide a timeline for the test centre being established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25987/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (15 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I fear I am being repetitive on this issue. However, I am very passionate about it because I am aware of the trauma it causes victims. While I understand the legislation will give power to the judge to use his or her discretion on whether to allow these documents to be accessed by any defence team, it will be very subjective. It will put the victim in the position, prior to any trial, of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (15 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commit to the removal of the provision that allows counselling notes to be used in all legal proceedings in the proposed general scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25015/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (15 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I welcome the news that the general scheme of the criminal law and civil law Bill 2025 has now received Cabinet approval. Will the Minister commit to the removal of the provision that allows for counselling notes to be used in all legal proceedings?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (15 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister for that comprehensive answer. I understand fully the conflict he will face in trying to balance these rights. However, I want to point out the purpose of counselling notes. These notes are confidential. The are about helping victims on the road to recovery following a very traumatic and harrowing experience. The very idea that these notes could be exposed to the...