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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills, and the Government is lucky that it is still here.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Thirteen Bills in a year.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I respect the right of the Member to speak. I did not interrupt her colleague. I am stating my own opinion and the opinion of thousands of other people across this country. That is the reality of it. In the first few minutes of this debate the Social Democrats, others and the Government have engaged in a blame game, the Taoiseach having given us a history of former housing Ministers and...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: We have said that and the public will get an opportunity to see that. Nobody watching this debate believes that it would be beneficial for this country to plunge itself into a general election in Christmas week or shortly thereafter, in advance of another Brexit deadline of 31 January. The public are not on the side of the Social Democrats on this motion. Others have jumped on the...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin has presided over the pulling down of the Government in the North of Ireland, such that it has not sat for three years. There is also the matter of the record of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland on housing. Deputy Ó Broin's book is a partitionist book because he never referred in it to Sinn Féin's track record on housing in the North of Ireland. I read it but it...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin walked away from its responsibilities in the North. They are the facts. What Fianna Fáil will not do-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Unfortunately, that is the truth and the track record of Sinn Féin in the North.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Fianna Fáil has put the national interest first by sticking with a confidence and supply arrangement that, frankly, in many instances has not suited and has been difficult to do politically. In doing so, we have put country ahead of narrow party political gain and that is what we will continue to do. The public will get an opportunity early in the new year to review what each party is...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Early next year the public will be insisting that parties and those who put themselves forward for election show them what they would do differently. Fianna Fáil will put home ownership at the centre of the solution to the housing crisis, increase social housing build and control rents such that people will have a safe and secure home for themselves and their families.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I would like to share time with Deputies Casey and Cassells.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I fully respect the right of any party to use its parliamentary time in whatever way it sees fit. Any party has the right to table a motion of no confidence in the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, or indeed in any other Minister. It is perfectly permissible under the procedures of this House. The question for many people, including the media and many of the people to whom I have spoken, is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: That is why I talk about a lack of delivery. The Minister was there a while ago and it still does not have its extension.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister for his response and I welcome what he has said with regard to Skerries. I hope those moves will deal with the students in Skerries who have not been able to obtain a place. The reason we are here and that we do not have enough capacity is because of delays in delivering schools. Take St. Joseph's secondary school in Rush as an example. The Minister speaks about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister for taking this Topical Issue debate, which deals with the crisis in the number of secondary school places in Dublin Fingal. The Minister recently paid a visit to Skerries community college in advance of polling in the by-election. There is a more fundamental issue in north Dublin and I am glad of the opportunity to address it with the Minister. We are the fastest...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Supervision (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of plans to request the Central Bank to conduct an assessment of existing sustainable restructuring solutions across all lenders and non-bank entities operating here. [50056/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to establish funding mechanisms for institutes of technology to support the development of their student accommodation capacity. [50061/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of school transport to pupils living in the Ballyboughal, County Dublin, area who will be attending a school (details supplied) which will open on the Rathbeale Road in September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50120/19]