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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Brendan Ryan: ...is the issue of our times but one would never know it with this budget. The housing allocation does not seem to recognise that Ireland has a housing crisis. For example, €1.1 billion was allocated for the construction, acquisition and leasing of only 11,000 new social homes. However, recent figures put the number of homeless in Ireland at more than 10,300, and it is consistently...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the retention of the 9% VAT rate for tourism related industries. This has been a successful initiative by the Government to stimulate this area of the economy and its extension for a further year is important as we work our way towards recovery. I have supported the campaign for its retention for at least another year and I am glad it is included in the Bill. The home renovation...

Seanad: Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy: Statements (7 Oct 2010)

Brendan Ryan: ...It is essential to ensure the new clean technology sectors have the skilled workforces they need. It was reported recently that, according to a leading recruitment company, up to 60% of clean tech industry jobholders had to be sourced from overseas owing to a skills shortage here. The shortage of electrical engineers and wind energy analysts, in particular, is a concern. Worrying trends...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...to take on a burden of debt it has had no hand in accumulating. If we manage to run good airports, our infrastructure will decide where development happens. This morning's newspapers quote tourism industry representatives as saying the number of visitors to Dublin has continued to increase while the number of visitors to the rest of the country has dropped dramatically because of our poor...