Results 1-7 of 7 for construction industry council speaker:Clare Daly

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: ...Martin from Sligo who wrote to me about the so-called increase in the old age pension and the insulting fact that the social welfare payments have been delayed. Stephen, a man from my own area, is a construction worker who, in his own words, was forced to be in the bogus self-employment category. There was nothing in the budget for him. The last time he was laid off he was unemployed...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Clare Daly: ...concentrating more power in the hands of the Minister is the right move to make. We discussed that on Second Stage. The belief is that part of the Bill has its origin in the moves by Dublin City Council to have a higher standard than the minimum. It has been under pressure for many years to change that situation. My view is that the council was quite good in the stance it took. Not...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Clare Daly: ...guidelines. As we know, the 2007 guidelines increased the minimum sizes for one-bedroom apartments from the 1998 minimum of 38 sq. m to 45 sq. m. In a very positive development, Dublin City Council went one better and set the minimum floor size for one-bedroom apartments at 55 sq. m, which is 10 sq. m larger than the minimum set out in the national guidelines. We are now being asked...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

Clare Daly: ...luxury. That is what is happening not in a so-called Third World country, but in a so-called advanced capitalist country, which has been through an unprecedented boom, much of which centred on the construction industry. One really could not make this thing up. A room over someone's head is more than bricks and mortar - it is a human right. The delivery of housing should be a starting...

Report of the Pyrite Panel: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: ...by someone that if they had Googled it, they would have got it in a half an hour but to be honest, there was no explanation as to why it took two years. The panel compliments Fingal County Council. Let us be clear, Fingal is the area where most of the victims live with the consequences and that is why it is particularly important in this context. When the first case was confirmed in...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Clare Daly: ...are not here for the good of their health but because they want help. Labour Party Deputies have claimed the State has no responsibility and talk as if this would be some kind of bailout for the construction industry. They should be ashamed of themselves; they have long left the tradition of the likes of James Connolly. These victims bought their homes in the belief they were buying a...

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Clare Daly: ...result of the lack of adequate protection at present. This is also the case for many suppliers, not those who have been doing a great deal of lobbying such as Roadstone, Kilsaran and the concrete industry, which are well protected and none of which has gone to the wall in the crisis. However, many of the smaller suppliers and suppliers which feed to subcontractors and hardware stores...