Results 81-100 of 708 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: That is not necessarily the case.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Tánaiste still will not answer my question.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: As a new TD, I am shocked by the lack of Government Ministers and TDs on the benches opposite. This is a debate about the budget. What is happening is absolutely farcical.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Government talks about wanting to hear views and ideas from the Opposition, but its Ministers and TDs do not even bloody bother to turn up in the Dáil to listen. The Minister of State is the only one here. It is an absolute disgrace, but in some ways it is not surprising. It is just a continuation of the cynical and misleading actions of the Government during the election...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: That is because the numbers are increasing so high.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is very disappointing to hear that. We are in a housing crisis and housing emergency now for well over a decade. One could argue in some respects that we have been in a housing crisis since the 1990s. House prices have been on the rise, then we had the crash, and now we are back into rising and unsustainable house prices. There is still something fundamentally wrong with our housing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to hold a referendum and legislate for a constitutional right to housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53899/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Will the Minister update us on the plans to deliver the social housing projects via public-private partnerships? I understand that there are legal issues in relation to those. Is there any progress on that, particularly around the projects in Ballymun and Whitehall in my own constituency and elsewhere in Dublin? What is the status of those social housing projects? When will they be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: There may have been a different notification in relation to the question. Apologies. I will ask that question briefly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: Perfect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: There was a very clear commitment in the 2020 Fianna Fáil manifesto in relation to holding a referendum on housing. I cannot remember whether it was in Fine Gael’s manifesto as well, but I think there was a commitment around it in the 2020 programme for Government. There was also a Seanad motion passed calling for a referendum on the right to housing and a constitutional change...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: We need to be honest here about what is going on. Someone is spinning something or telling porkies. It was reported on RTÉ's "Prime Time" last May that there were delays. AHBs said there were delays. It cannot be easy for approved housing bodies to be publicly critical of the Department of housing and the delays in because they rely on the Department for their funding. They said it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: We are in agreement that we want to see as many cost rental and social homes as possible built in as quick a time as possible. I do not understand why it is coming out that there are these delays. The Minister says there are no delays. I am not satisfied that is the case because AHBs are saying there are issues of delays. The Minister also said at the housing committee that there is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: I am always delighted to go for a walk with Deputy Gould.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the way in which his Department plans to address approval lags for cost rental equity loan, CREL, funding; the reason capital advance leasing facility, CALF, and CREL funding is being approved at different times; the number of units which have been delayed, in tabular form; and his plans to address these delays....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the March 2026 rent reset will be operationalised in a way that will protect renters and mitigate for the financial incentive for landlords to evict tenants ahead of the rent reset date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the stalled PPP housing bundles; to provide an updated delivery time frame for the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement a State savings scheme, similar to the Social Democrats' homes for Ireland State savings scheme, to fund the delivery of affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53900/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Rory Hearne: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider his stance outlined in Parliamentary Question Nos. 384, 385 and 386 of 23 September 2025 (details supplied) regarding the regulation of licensee arrangements in rental accommodation in view of the exploitation outlined in Threshold's ‘Renting at the Frontier’ report launched 30 September...