Results 14,561-14,580 of 26,886 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to correct something Deputy Gould said when he referred to Deputy Matthews as a new Deputy. Deputy Gould is too and he is as entitled as anyone else to make a contribution on the floor of the House.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I will say this to the Deputy. I sat through the vast bulk of the Committee Stage debate on this Bill. No one criticised Sinn Féin for the number of amendments it tabled. The Deputy did not want to table any this time; that is fine. That is his own choice. Deputy Gould and his housing spokesperson decided not to table amendments on Report Stage. That is fine. Deputy Boyd Barrett...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not moved or spoken on amendment No. 13 yet. It is a Government amendment. Deputy Boyd Barrett is concluding on amendments Nos. 1 to 12-----
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I said to the Acting Chairman in the Ceann Comhairle's absence that I was going to make a point specifically around amendment No. 13 because it is a Government amendment. I have not done so yet. I can be very brief so as not to detain Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely not.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Not at all. If Deputy Boyd Barrett does not want to know why we are changing the Title to the Bill, that is fine.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: That is absolutely fine.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I will move amendment No. 13 at the appropriate time. Maybe they will not oppose it so that is fine.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Are there any amendments the Deputy wants to highlight in particular?
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: We are discussing amendments Nos. 1 to 13.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Does the Deputy miss it?
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Táim ag éisteacht.
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I have not moved amendment No. 13 yet but I might address some of the points raised on it and also address amendments Nos. 1 to 12. Deputy Boyd Barrett moved all 12 of those amendments and I will address them first. I thank Deputies for taking the time to table amendments and for a comprehensive debate, both on Second and Committee Stages. As the Chairman of the committee, Deputy Matthews,...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy might also speak to amendment No. 13, which is mine.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Details of the funding provided by my Department to each local authority under the Disabled Persons Grants (DPG) scheme for years 2019, and 2020 are available at the following link: www.housing.gov.ie/housing/grantsfinancial-assistance/disabl ed-persons-grants-and-improvement-works-lieu-schemes The 2021 DPG allocations issued to local authorities in May details of which can be found at the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 104 and 105 together. My Department provides funding under the suite of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability, in respect of private houses. There are three separate grants available, including the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, with responsibility for the apportionment between them being a matter...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (30 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of accommodation and associated services for homeless persons rests with individual housing authorities. My Department’s role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at local level. While...
- Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: I have been listening to the Member. She has made charges against me concerning things that I did not say, nor have I ever.
- Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: She should withdraw them because they are just wrong and she knows it.
- Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy will not be let away with her propaganda this evening.