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- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy O'Sullivan. The Labour Party supports this Fine Gael Bill this evening. I congratulate the party's environment spokesperson, Deputy O'Dowd, on bringing the Bill before the House. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has a hard neck. He is the Minister responsible for electoral matters. After his party's ten years in office he...
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Roche is the Minister who is responsibleââ
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: According to the Minister's script, they were published in April 2006. For a man who is getting "smart-alecky" about dates, now, and who has been lecturing other people here all night about dates, the Minister would need toââ
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Nobody comes into the House more often than the Minister to pull people up on all types of dates, phrases, commas and so on. He is the Minister responsible for electoral matters. His Government could have brought legislation before the House anytime in the past ten years to provide for an independent electoral commission. It is not a new idea but one that has been kicked around the Houses...
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 67: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of planning applications submitted to planning authorities, for each quarter since the beginning of 2005 to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13258/07]
- Written Answers — Housing Completions: Housing Completions (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dwellings completed here from 1999 to date in 2007; the number of dwellings delivered to date under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13257/07]
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the overall number of households in the State who are considered to have a housing need, to include the number of households seeking local authority and other forms of social housing; the number of households in local authority or other social housing who are considered to be living in overcrowded or otherwise...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State has not answered the question I asked. What is the total number of people considered to have a housing need? There are 60,000 households on rent supplement. They are required to have a housing need in order to qualify for rent supplement. Not everyone on a local authority housing list is on rent supplement. The Minister of State gave the figure for those on local...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not what I asked for. If I had wanted to know about the housing needs assessment I would have stated that in my question.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Does the Minister of State not know the figure?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: To how many is it being provided? There are 60,000 on rent allowance. Do they not have a housing need?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: They have a housing need. Otherwise they would not be getting rent allowance.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: There are also 30,000 on local authority lists who are not in receipt of rent supplement. That makes 90,000. How many more are there?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: They are not being met.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: What has that to do with anything?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: No one said that. The Minister of State is avoiding my question. I want to get an overall picture of the number of households with a housing need. How many households cannot meet their housing needs from their own resources? For a long time, the Minister of State has farmed out all kinds of figures to mislead the public on this question. He has done so again today. The 60,000 households...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: What is the difference?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: They are not. The State says they have a housing need.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The taxpayer is subsidising their landlords.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: To subsidise landlords.