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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...to live a decent life, and to end the shocking waste of human potential. We could have taken steps to drive down the cost of housing with a major programme of affordable house building on State land and by unlocking the high rate of housing vacancy. We could have aimed to achieve a fairer tax system and a more equal society, one where we started to close the gap between the better off...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...out of reach for increasing numbers of workers. This Government's market-driven policies, along with its close ties with those interests who are making a packet out of housing, whether that is developers, land speculators or the property industry in general, have condemned an entire generation to unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices. We are still dealing with the consequences...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That land was sold to a developer.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...for people on middle incomes, especially in Dublin, to aspire to homeownership. It has been clear for years that the priority for Fine Gael has been to serve the interests of developers and land speculators, not the interests of ordinary workers. The Minister does not have to take my word for it because the figures speak for themselves. In the five years up to 2022, on a country-wide...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...the Minister does is about subsidies for developers. It is time he got real about this and set out to drive down the cost of housing. That is the fundamental problem. He needs to deal with the land issue at the root of that and drive down the cost of housing. That is what is required.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the primary care centre for Finglas, Dublin 11; the status of stage one preliminary design; if the legal process to transfer the land has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23936/23]

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...supply and if there is sufficient supply, then prices will go down. That does not necessarily follow. The rules of supply and demand do not apply to house prices because the other factor is the cost of land. At no point, certainly in recent history, has there been any serious attempt to address the issues of the high cost and high price of land. Essentially, developers control the...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...sustainability must also be a consideration in any scheme like this. There is an argument that mortgage interest relief creates a kind of false economy, using taxpayer funds to mitigate the effects of Ireland's comparatively high mortgage interest rates and subsidising bank profits in the process. One has to ask whether that is a desirable objective. It it also artificially reducing a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted any research into the proportion of the cost of new apartments or houses that is attributable to the land purchase costs; if so, if he will provide same; if not, if his attention has been drawn to any available research or data in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63913/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...for analysis in just the first seven months of this year. There was a commitment in the wake of the CervicalCheck failures that the analysis of these slides would be carried out in total in Ireland. Four years later, that has not happened. Vicky Phelan was always adamant that action was important to her, not platitudes and empty promises. When can we expect that the commitments made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...tax announced in Budget 2023 was set at 0.3% tax on the value of the vacant home; the rationale for selecting this level and not implementing a higher tax which takes account for inflation in land value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56001/22]

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...and organisations. Despite the introduction of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015, a cloak of secrecy persists in public life here. Sure, our regime looks pretty robust on paper. In fact, Ireland tends to be placed high among jurisdictions internationally, but when you take a deeper look the cracks in the Irish system become all too apparent. As the Oireachtas Library and Research...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: .... Today's is the latest. The Government is faced with a motion which states that we must pursue the full realisation of the promise that was made by the Religious Sisters of Charity to gift the land to the people of Ireland and engage at the highest level with the new ownership group behind St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, St. Vincent's Holdings CLG, to secure full public ownership of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Earlier today the Minister said we will own the building and the land for the next 300 years in the same way that anyone who buys an apartment owns their apartment. This is just patent nonsense. The real value of the new asset centres on the licence. Has the Taoiseach read the licence? The freehold ownership of the hospital site plus the 299-year lease plus the 299-year licence adds up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...campus but they are all independent facilities. I cannot help thinking that when you look at all the detail involved in this and while there are many concerns, what this boils down is an issue of land value. There is no getting away from that. I have a number of questions for Mr. Menton. In 2020, SVHG had total liabilities of €450 million. Of that, more than €370...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...own it fully. Why will the nuns not follow through on that promise? There is some indication in the lease agreement of the reason they will not sell it. Section 6.4 of the lease states that the landlord, St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, will be able to mortgage or charge its freehold interest in the land, without notice, to the maternity hospital 20 years post construction. It has to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...capability of this Government - and why was it beyond that of the two previous Fine Gael-led Governments - to countenance a State-owned and controlled national maternity hospital, built on State lands and through the use of State funds? The Minister once agreed that this was the only credible outcome. In 2017, he told the Dáil that the new maternity hospital "should involve not the...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...ethos. We also want a hospital that is publicly owned. We should not repeat the mistakes of the past, where the State abdicated responsibility for health and education, and funded buildings and land for religious orders. Recently, we have found the difficulties with that and that we could not take it back in any way. Much of that land has been sold for a huge profit. We want a new...

Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...€344,000 extra per annum. That is an awful lot of money and there is a need to progress this matter. I raise this issue every six months or so and I am told that the Department hopes to meet the landlord to discuss it and negotiate, but no progress has been made. While the Minister of State has answered for this in the past, there does not seem to have been much progress....

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...a lot of damage has been done and the previous Government got it wrong. Many people are talking about housing policy and the housing crisis. Planning and housing are inextricably linked. A good land use policy is needed, at which point it can be decided how to develop housing. In the past seven or eight years, we have seen our reasonably decent planning framework and context being...