Results 161-180 of 4,833 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien in 'Dáil debates'
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Do not try that again with me, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Anyway, I will not get involved in this childish back and forth with Deputy Ó Broin.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Stop it. He is being ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not think we can apportion blame for the conduct of questions this morning.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Can I respond to that?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I do answer questions regularly. Do not misrepresent it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: If he is feeling let down, I will make sure I answer the Deputy next time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sixteen hundred. To give you an example, Eoin, just in the past few weeks, 1,243 affordable purchase homes were advertised in Carlow, Cork city and county, Fingal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Limerick, South Dublin - your own area, Waterford, Westmeath and Wicklow. It is taking hold and it does take time to build capacity.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: People can clearly see-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----delivery on cost rental, for which we legislated and tenants are in place now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: If I could say, a Leas Cheann Comhairle, this is a tactic that Deputy Ó Broin regularly uses to try to talk me down. He will not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He can try-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: He can try to deny progress-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Not only does he deny progress, he blocks progress.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: There are no measures whatsoever from Sinn Féin, no plan and no money.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It remains the single most important challenge we face, no less so for those families and individuals who find themselves in emergency accommodation. Supporting those individuals and families is a priority. Critical to that support is enabling households to exit homelessness and increasing housing supply. Almost 12,000 new social homes were delivered last year, a massive increase in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I welcome and congratulate the Minister of State, Alan Dillon, on his appointment to the Department. Alan has a specific and detailed interest in housing, and I look forward to working with him, as I am sure colleagues across the House do. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for the question. As he knows, under Housing for All, which is the plan that we have actually published, that is fully...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am very happy to stand over our plan, its delivery and its record. That stands in sharp contrast to Sinn Féin's lack of a plan and its lack of alternatives in this space. It has never produced or costed a housing plan. Take the vacant property grant. The Deputy says he is not opposed to it, but he allocated no moneys to it whatsoever in the Sinn Féin alternative budget. To...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am not misrepresenting anything. What I am doing is presenting real progress. We had no affordable homes here. First-time buyers are buying at a rate we have not seen since 2006. I and this Government believe in homeownership; you do not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: But you actually do not, Eoin.