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Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023): John McGahon: ...or making something up. This is borne out in the results. In this country, every week 400 people are buying their first homes. Since this day last year, when we all spoke about budget 2023, 30,500 new homes have been built. There have been 11,630 new social homes, of which 9,300 are already under construction. They are the facts in black and white. People can see this with their own...
Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2021): John McGahon: ...the proposed increase of vehicle registration tax, VRT, on electric vehicles. My issue around this is twofold. We have ambitious plans about electric vehicles in this country. We want to have 1 million electric vehicles on our roads by 2030. At the same time, there are reports from the Department of Finance that new car prices intend to jump by €1,300 for normal cars and, for...
Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (11 Nov 2020): John McGahon: Thank you for your condolences, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. My cousin Niall McGahon famously won an FAI Cup medal in 1958 with Dundalk FC at the age of 18 years, so I appreciate that. I submitted this Commencement matter today on urban regeneration funding because it is such an important issue for the north end of Dundalk town. The Bridge Street and Linenhall Street area has essentially been a...

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