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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: There is clearly demand for the school and there is clearly an unmet demand if the school is not able to continue to grow or even to meet the basic needs of the children who are there. I understand that Fermoy Educate Together National School has been given the go-ahead to open an autism class and that it has four children in the school at the moment who need access to that class but are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: In the lifetime of this Government, over €4.8 billion has been expended on school buildings and extended accommodation. That includes 800 projects that have been completed by the Department and 300 projects at various stages of development that are currently on site. The Deputy will be aware that earlier this year, I made an announcement of €800 million in additional funding...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Many of my colleagues have already spoken about the fact that some councils' best tenants, those who have been in houses the longest, are dealing with mould, the cold and an absolutely brutal circumstances. Like everyone else, I am sure the Minister of State has people coming to him saying that they have never looked for anything and they cannot get a window or door fixed. The biggest issue...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Deputy is actually over time, and that is not for the first time either. This is an important issue. The reason it is important is that it is simple to fix, and it could have been fixed. I am sorry the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, is not here because his party has been in government for 13 years. To be at this stage after 13 years is not acceptable. The Minister of State will...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I want to let Deputy Pringle know, though he will probably hear later, that our motion applies to rural and urban areas. It applies to all 31 local authorities. We are looking for a major investment of money and additional staff to deal with housing maintenance issues. No disrespect to the Minister of State, but his response and those of the other Ministers earlier show the reality of...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Pringle is bringing back memories for me now.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: My mother, as a proud Kildare woman, would probably concur with the comments of Deputy Pringle too. I thank all of the Deputies for their contributions. I will respond to some of their comments before making my closing remarks. Quite a number of Deputies have raised the issue of apprentices and direct maintenance within local authorities. I raised this with officials during the...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy O'Donoghue for sharing his time and Sinn Féin for bringing the motion before the Dáil. I would like to deal with some quick practicalities. I thank the housing staff, clerk of works and people I deal with on a daily basis in our local authority, Kerry County Council, who are engaged in spending the money they get from central government to do the works that are...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding the maintenance and repair of local authority housing. I support the motion and its call to significantly increase funding for a social housing retrofitting programme to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy poverty. However, I note the motion lacks a rural aspect, which is disappointing. Although there...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Canney for his words of wisdom.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in the construction business all my life. Is the Government facilitating a one-stop shop cartel? Will the Minister of State clarify why the registered independent BER assessors are not permitted to provide the home energy assessment required to apply for a loan under the home energy upgrade loan scheme as the energy assessment can only be conducted by an SEAI-registered one-stop...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. I have been involved in politics for 20 years, having previously been at council level since 2004, and one of the big issues I have seen with housing, even when we were building houses at the volume that was required, related to how to manage the housing stock we had. I recall, when I was involved in building houses, going back three...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of us will be very familiar with people coming into our constituency office to show us photographs, as Deputy Gould did earlier. I thank him and Sinn Féin for this important motion. There is damp rolling down the walls and the windows. There is black mould in the bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Clothes and bedclothes are made damp as a result. There is a prevalence of...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 May 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Mairéad Farrell - To discuss the provision of a special language class at Scoil Chaitríona, Renmore, Galway. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - To discuss the closing of the pollock fishery and the collapse in...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Debate resumed on the following motion:

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Gould for tabling this motion. Before I turn to some of the particulars, at the heart of this is a discussion of what happened to public housing and how it has been allowed to be run down over the years. I will talk about the individual impacts that has on people who rent but part of that running down of public housing and the stock, not investing in,...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: You do not have to take it.