Results 161-180 of 2,165 for speaker:Micheál Carrigy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: No apologies have been received but we have received correspondence from Deputy Gould indicating that Deputy Buckley will be replacing him today. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. Ireland is facing ongoing difficulties in delivering...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I thank Ms Behan and invite Mr. Coleman to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I thank Mr. Coleman and invite Mr. Taaffe to make his contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Thanks very much. I will give an opportunity for members to raise issues. We have gone slightly longer than planned, time-wise. Members have five minutes. I will cut it at five minutes so I ask them to direct the question straight away; otherwise, we will run into problems. I ask witnesses to be conscious of the time. I am giving five minutes to each member. That is for questions and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Ms Behan said she is going to come back to the Deputy with some information she does not have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I thank Senator McCarthy very much. We will move on to Senator Casey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Very quickly, as we have gone well over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I call Senator Maria McCormack.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Can we get a very short answer to that question? That question has gone on for a minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I will let Deputy Sheehan from the Labour Party in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Is this specific report on housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: We have three and a half minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: We will have to wrap this up. I will ask one question myself and cut my own time. I come from Longford. We have been pushing for a large number of years for an affordable scheme. We did not fit all the criteria and figure out a way of working it out yet. On the ground, that was a reality. People were looking for affordable housing. We have the highest percentage of social housing per...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I have lots of other questions but I will not ask them because we have gone over time and we have a second session. I thank all the witnesses for coming in. I have no doubt we will more than likely see the vast majority of them within the next number of months, under various areas and topics we are discussing with regard to housing. I thank them for their courtesy. We will suspend briefly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: Before we commence, I am cognisant that I meant to say this during the previous session. I ask members to be careful, when speaking to witnesses, that the ultimate responsibility for any Department lies with the Minister on behalf of the Government, or indeed with the Secretary General. I ask members to be mindful of that when speaking to witnesses who are staff from the Departments. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: The screen stalled there for a second, but we have Mr. Turnbull back now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I ask Mr. Turnbull to keep his response very short because we are really tight on time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I thank Mr. Turnbull. I call Senator Joe Flaherty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: I apologise to our guests for the delay in starting and thank them for their patience because we ran over time with our previous meeting. I thank them for coming in and assisting the committee. We will now conclude our consideration of matters. I propose that the committee continues in private session to discuss other matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Micheál Carrigy: We are tight on time.