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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There is a problem to which the Deputy has referred. There is need for contact with the local authorities to try to ensure every opportunity is taken to prevent homelessness and not to impede the HAP system on top of everything else. People will become homeless very quickly when the tenancy has expired.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify, through the various local authorities, suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these, including modular homes and conventional methods, to provide houses for...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The question adequately explains the situation I and several others are faced with. I compliment the Minister. He has shed some considerable light on a situation that annoys us from time to time. With particular reference to the tenant in situ scheme, my experience has been that the proposal is refused in the first instance, although the landlord is willing to sell and so on. In some...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In support of the Deputy and the theme he is developing, is it possible to put together a bundle of opportunities that might be availed of by various families who are finding it difficult to get into the housing market? For instance, the first response in respect of the tenant in-situ scheme seems to be refusal. That creates a delay and does not solve the housing problem for the individual...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he is availing of modern housing production methods to facilitate the provision of additional supply of homes to the market in order to address the ever increasing demand arising from termination of tenancies or other factors which might make it difficult, or even impossible, for families to provide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain, for people who find themselves with warnings to exit their existing tenancies and have little or no time to make alternative arrangements, the extent to which private service sites might be utilised.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I had in mind the utilisation of modern construction methods to speed up, in the first case, the provision of houses, and the provision of housing for people who may find themselves, through no fault of their own, without a home and have no option except to consider making themselves homeless by leaving the house they are in, in which case they will not be considered by the local authorities,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I accept that the Government's plan for housing is working but unfortunately it is working too slowly. It is not working fast enough to be able to feed the market that is ever growing. That market is caused by, in some cases, tenancies being terminated by landlords for whatever reason. There is no blame on anybody but the tenants have been given a deadline. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with the British prime minister. [37659/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. Does Deputy Kenny wish to finish off his interrupted closure?

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Did Deputy Troy wish to make a contribution?

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We made an exception before, so we have to make another. I know we are not supposed to do that, but here we are. The Deputy might be brief.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. Has Deputy Kenny concluded and is he satisfied?

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In that case, that concludes the debate on this issue.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the usual weekly division time next Wednesday.

Estimates for Public Services 2024: Message from Select Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications.

Message from Select Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its detailed scrutiny of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021, and in accordance with Standing Order 178, has recommended that, for the reasons outlined in its report, the Bill should proceed through Committee Stage.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Gino Kenny to reply to the debate.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is not in order but the House agrees so we will allow it.

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Gino Kenny has ten minutes.