Results 1-20 of 218 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is another scandal. It is another failure of our State to protect our most vulnerable. The failings of care that have been revealed in the "RTÉ Investigates" programme are horrifying. Vulnerable residents were left unsupervised, there was a lack of basic supplies and there was the rough handling of older people. One of the nursing homes featured is Beneavin Manor in my...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: When did I say that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I never said there was no role for the market. That is a lie.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: That is a different thing from-----

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: This motion gives the Irish Government the opportunity to fulfil its moral, ethical, legal and democratic obligations to act to prevent the genocide that is being committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel is pursuing a campaign of collective punishment against the Palestinian people, destroying entire cities and forced displacement camps where people have nowhere else to go....

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: That is not right.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made on the programme for Governments commitment "to provide the nationwide network of post offices with funding to ensure their sustainability and enhance the value they bring to local communities."; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (11 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will commit to additional funding for post offices that are at risk of closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30907/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion today on voids in council housing. I have worked for many years in the area of public and council housing. One of the key issues is that local authorities, historically, for the past 30 or 40 years, have been not just undermined but effectively decommissioned in their role in housing. I remember this clearly from when I worked in...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Today the Taoiseach said that rents are supposedly not going to increase but we know it is the case that rents will increase as a result of the measures brought in today by the Government. We are in the midst of an emergency that the Government accepts is an emergency, with rents higher than they have ever been in the history of the State - they are completely unaffordable and unsustainable...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Of course they can; they are doing it every day. How many evictions took place last year? There were thousands and thousands of evictions. They can evict a tenant through the sale of the property to a family member. Landlords are already on the radio saying that they are leaving properties vacant for two years so they can charge the market rent. They now know that next March, they will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Until their tenancy ends.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: When is a rent too high?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: You are going to have to do more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Why is that? What has been set out is obviously significant and comprehensible and calls for a radical reset, but what are the officials afraid of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Is Professor Norris referring to what is implied by the ticked boxes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: The obvious thing is to ask the commission members whether they would be willing to continue if asked again to continue monitoring and implementing. While I disagree with some of the witnesses, I believe they have provided something excellent. The amount of time and work they put in is incredible and there is so much in it that the obvious thing is to bring the commission back again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: Mr. O'Flynn and I have different points of view on what a public construction company could do and I do not think he needs to fear it as much as he thinks he needs to. Do the witnesses want to refer to the question about interest in the market, the question of the minority report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the members of the Housing Commission who are present. It is great to have them here. I have gone through the report in detail and it is very interesting from an academic, political and social point of view. It is a pity there has not been more engagement with it. While I clearly would not agree with a certain amount in it, there is much that I do agree with. I have many...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Rory Hearne: 383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering introducing national drone regulations in addition to the EU regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30713/25]