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Defective Dwellings Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: ..., and can be as severe as not having an escape route or not having a fire-detecting alarm system. Other defects include water ingress defects, which adversely affect roofs. This defect is present in between 20% and 50% of homes. Structural defects which make the home quite literally uninhabitable, where the roof or walls of the home are defective and therefore a risk to the inhabitants,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: Is there anything relative to our population increase? Last year, the population of Ireland was recorded as 5 million people. While my son was studying for his junior certificate examined, he learned that in 1997 there was only 3.7 million people living in this country so the population has increased by 38% in 25 years. Has the increase in population stretched our capacity? I ask because...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (9 Nov 2021)

Francis Noel Duffy: It is very simple. This community needs help. We have a population of 5 million now. We are one big community and this is part of that and it needs help. It is underfunded. The funding has not been brought back even though it has been brought back to various other areas. It is under-resourced with gardaí. I do not know how much more needs to be said. I heard yesterday from Pat...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Francis Noel Duffy: 383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the planned investment of €5 million in DEIS schools will be allocated in 2022; if additional resources including staffing will be provided to DEIS band one schools; her views on class size reductions in DEIS band 1 junior and vertical schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44251/20]