Results 141-160 of 218 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: We did not see Micheal Lowry in the manifesto.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: Come on.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 5 February 2025, for a status update on her Department’s efforts to secure the necessary statutory approvals for the development of the permanent buildings for a school (details supplied); if she will provide further updates relating to the project; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the tenant-in-situ scheme; if his Department will advise on the best course of action for the family to take in this case; if his Department will liaise with Dublin City Council regarding this matter in order to clarify the scheme’s...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the current status of the tenant-in-situ scheme; if the scheme is still in operation; the funding allocated to the scheme in each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number of housing units purchased via the scheme in 2023 and 2024, by local authority, in tabular form; if he will provide the guidelines issued to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant housing officers, per local authority, in terms of full-time equivalent posts, in tabular form; the expenditure per local authority on addressing housing vacancy in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of HAP, by local authority, broken down by household dwelling type and type of HAP payment (including discretionary HAP payment), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14143/25]

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is my daughter's sixth birthday today. I think about the world and the Europe we are creating for her and all the children, living and those to come. It is incredible that the project of the European Union, which was supposed to be about peace and improving quality of life for the people living there, now appears to be about to become a project of war. This will not make Europe safer or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reverse the decision to restrict eligibility and funding for the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: This question relates to the tenant in situ scheme, which we discussed last night. Will the Minister reconsider the framing and limitations he is putting on the scheme? While it is welcome that he is committing to continuing with the scheme, this will not actually involve a continuation of the scheme that has been in place because the new limitations will change the nature of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: While I appreciate that the Minister is committing to continuing the scheme, will he provide the evidence to back up why he is targeting it? Why is it not being provided on a general basis in order to give local authorities the flexibility and funding to respond to whatever household is facing eviction or homelessness? Why does it have to be only families? Why is the Minister saying-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I know, but prioritisation means local authorities will have to decide. Local authorities will have a certain budget and will be able to purchase properties and keep some people in their homes, but not others. We are in this system of prioritisation rather than a general ability to apply the scheme. That means restricting some local authorities in their ability to do it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is not true that the tenant in situ scheme is being continued as it was. There has been a change to it. In the context of the removal of the funding for refurbishment, will the Minister reconsider this and, in the context of the circular that is to be issued, allocate local authorities funding for refurbishment under the scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent CSO data showing that the number of new homes approved annually fell by over 21% in 2024; his plans to introduce an alternative policy measure to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12895/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: In terms of the planning applications, we have seen a significant fall in applications. The figures are down over 21% annually, and apartments even further. What are the Minister's plans to address this? In particular, does it not show that the Minister's housing policy and Housing for All as a policy has not worked, that new measures are required and, in fact, that the reliance on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I do not see the radical reset in the Minister's response that the Housing Commission called for and the Minister himself agreed was needed. We know the definition of insanity is continuing the same policy or same approach and expecting a different outcome. On the question about the planning and apartments, there is over-reliance on institutional investors. Institutional investors invest...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: The Minister is repeating the same tropes that the Taoiseach repeats that we have had no alternatives. If the Minister looked at our election manifesto, he is correct that we talked about using private investment but it is the particular type of private investment. The Taoiseach is also spinning this by saying we are against private investment. We are not against private investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the fact more than 88,000 homes are currently vacant, in view of data showing that over 2,000 homes were liable for the vacant property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to accelerate and scale up the delivery of affordable housing via local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely and vital motion. It is deeply disappointing to see that the Government is not supporting it and has put forward an amendment that will take away from the point of the motion. I am deeply annoyed and frustrated by this Government's failure to act on homelessness and to treat it like an emergency. A home is one of the most...