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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Mick Barry: The Irish Property Owners Association issued a call on Monday for the abolition of rent pressure zones. It was backed by the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers whose chief executive, Mr. Pat Davitt, said, "many, many landlords are renting ... their properties way, way under the rent". They are not getting market rent for their properties and, "The market needs to relax and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The 100,000 homes delivered in the lifetime of the Government have been welcome. In areas where viability is an issue, it is important that we have public housing on public land, in particular in cities. It is welcome that there are almost 2,500 houses in design and construction on many sites in my constituency alone. I am worried about one site in particular, which is the old Ballymun...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am aware, as is the Taoiseach, that the ESRI is undertaking a demographic analysis of the census, which showed that County Carlow has grown by 9% and is one of the fastest growing in the country. We now have a population of 62,000. I am asking about the facilities for housing. Specifically I am looking for an update on the upgrade and development of the Bagenalstown wastewater treatment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Mark Ward: I want to raise a niche issue in housing, which is the social housing passport. It provides for someone to move from one local authority housing list to another. At present, people on the Dublin City Council list cannot move over to the South Dublin County Council list without losing their time. I will give an example of why this is needed. I have a constituent living in Newcastle, County...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I will start there and go in reverse order. I thank Deputy Ward. That is a constructive suggestion. I will check when the review is due to be completed and see if we can make progress on the idea of a social housing passport. I am aware in parts of my constituency as well that county boundaries sometimes do not reflect the way people live their lives and where they work, go to school and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of that will come as cold comfort to Niamh and Anthony, for example, in the homeless hub in my area. They have two children and have now spent 20 months, two Christmases, homeless, and their biggest fear is that they will still be homeless next Christmas. It will come as cold comfort to Jennifer, who is in one bedroom with her two kids. She went on the housing list in 2008, the council...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is just so bad. It is getting worse and worse. We can see it in the figures. There are 4,000 children and almost 14,000 people in total homeless. One illustration of how I know it is getting worse is the increasing number of people coming to see me who are in emergency homeless accommodation and whose ask is not even to get a home but to get into better homeless...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have put in a freedom of information request to all local authorities seeking the number of vacant local authority properties that exist. Incredibly, the information I have got shows that there are 3,500 empty local authority homes at the moment. The State is the biggest hoarder of empty homes in the country. We have done more digging into this and have found that, on average, it takes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise with the Taoiseach the need to regulate management companies effectively. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to conduct a review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act, and almost four years later this has not been acted on. There have been serious questions about the financial management of a minority of management companies over recent years, with allegations in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I spoke to the Taoiseach last week about the defective concrete blocks situation and what needed to be done there. Today, I raise with him a similar issue. His Government promised to introduce a redress scheme for homeowners living with Celtic tiger-era building defects. Legislation was published last year and emergency funding was to be made available for fire safety works. I am making...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: When Leo Varadkar was in Boston, he said that the US and Ireland must dedicate themselves to peace in Gaza. The US Administration has continued to dedicate itself to supporting, financing and arming genocide, but students across America have fought for peace and protested against genocide and for their universities to divest from that genocide. Students at Columbia University, for example,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is vital that in any engagement with the American Administration, serious emphasis is placed on where the Irish people stand on the brutal slaughter of the Palestinian people. I am afraid to even talk about the number of deaths now. It is possibly 34,000, and probably a lot more, with 70% of them women and children. We have all heard that Netanyahu has made a promise, no matter what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank colleagues, including Deputy Haughey. In my previous capacity as Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, I visited Washington and Boston in February when I took the opportunity to see at first-hand the strength and vitality of our relationship, including our very strong and expanding education, research and innovation partnerships. I had a number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We will move to Questions Nos. 5 to 22, inclusive. We have 15 minutes for this slot and if we go over that time, it will be taken from the next slot.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cabinet Committees

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10626/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10629/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15074/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [16710/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [17374/24]