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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Tut-tut.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: It is not, and I do not really know what tut-tutting does.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach reeled off a whole load of figures to say that he wants to give context to the situation but he left out the very important figures that give further context to the situation, which is record homelessness, record house prices and a record number of people stuck in their childhood bedrooms. That context is pretty important as well. He might be new to the job but Fine Gael...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: I respect the Deputy but I ask her to please not misrepresent my position at all. I never, ever said anywhere that there would be 50,000 homes built this year. Let us not try to create a rift where one does not exist. What I said very clearly is that this country needs to build 250,000 new homes between 2025 and 2030. It does, by the way. The Construction Industry Federation, which has...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: And your rhetoric certainly will not solve it either. Proposing to abolish all of the schemes that we put in place that help people to move out of the box room and into their own homes certainly will not make progress either. I have answered the question very clearly in relation to long-term leasing and the Government's plan to end that by 31 December 2025. That is the Government...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Holly Cairns: It is now more than three years since the then Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, gave a very clear commitment. In response to questions from my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, he said he was opposed to the State entering long-term leasing deals for social homes. To quote him directly he said, "No local authority should be on the other side of this, engaging in a long lease with...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cairns for also raising this matter. First, context is important. While I have already outlined the Government's intention to end the use of long-term leasing by the end of 2025, I want anybody watching in at home to be aware that this is a very small part of our overall housing provision and a very small part of our social housing provision. If the Deputy will allow me a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. She likes to talk about our party's time in government. When my party came into government in 2011, fewer than 7,000 homes were built that year. Despite a global pandemic and a construction sector having to be shut down on many occasions, more than 32,000 homes were constructed last year alone. Later this year we will be in a position to revise...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: As I go across the country, I meet people who live with the consequences of the Taoiseach's housing policy. Here is what they experience: record rents they struggle to afford, record homelessness which leaves families and children in misery, a collapse in home ownership and an entire generation locked out of any real expectation of ever owning a home. Consequential to that, so many,...
- Prelude (14 May 2024)
- Prelude (14 May 2024)
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- Prelude (14 May 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (14 May 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years and in that time the housing crisis has gone from bad to worse. It is not an accident. We now have a full-blown housing disaster because the Government has the wrong priorities and the wrong policies. As a result, many workers and families are simply unable to put a secure, affordable roof over their head. A defining feature of Fine Gael...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: That would be really useful. I do not know whether the climate task force in the Taoiseach's office might be able to manage that. It is quite confusing to see what slots into what. If we are confused, the public will be confused. Even the fact there are different domestic and EU targets and they account for different emissions makes it more complex. In the assessment the EU did on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I suppose the issue is we can have all these targets and policies but it is also dependent on implementing them fully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Where it gets difficult is in the implementation of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: This is a comment on the politics of it all. The message we are putting across, particularly outside Ireland, is that Ireland is a real leader when it comes to climate measures and climate action, but the reality is very different. What level of risk is there? My fear is that we will get to the end point and say we were not doing such a good job after all. People are not aware that we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I do not know. Transport is still going up.