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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: With the Chair's indulgence, I welcome my sister Kay Lynch from Bantry and Geraldine O'Donovan from Ovens to the Gallery today. We are here to shed light on a distressing reality that many survivors of institutional abuse are currently grappling with. These individuals who have already endured so much are now facing long waits, often exceeding a year, to access crucial counselling...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge the presence of the Minister of State and thank him. I will say about this very important issue that every person goes through life and some people have good luck and good fortune and more people do not. Unfortunately, the people who found themselves in these institutions were very important human beings but were subjected to degrading practices. They were degraded and upset....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is to happen before the summer. It is just that 24 May is the deadline?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: Yes, I understand. I definitely heard the Deputy. Deputy Conway-Walsh raised the issue of defects in apartments and the interim scheme and the longer one. I will send her a written note. In short, up to the end of March, 128 applications are being progressed under the interim funding across 26 local authority areas, representing more than 13,000 residential units. Approximately 80% of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We will not have time to deal with the other questions now. Members can resubmit questions on those topics.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachtas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 1.54 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 2.54 p.m. Sitting suspended at 1.54 p.m. and resumed at 2.54 p.m

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Clare County Council recently confirmed it has finally been able to secure additional emergency accommodation. It will take a number of months to develop but it is intended for women and children only. This is great news but the council will only be able to bring forward a handful of units once it is completed. I have been seeking additional emergency accommodation for the past two years....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am bringing an issue of concern to the Taoiseach's attention relating to IPAS entering into rental agreements on established housing estates. This is happening in more than one local authority. I am quite aware that we need to do our best to house everybody that we can, be they migrants, people looking for private rental properties, or people in search of ever-elusive HAP properties....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I need to bring up an issue that relates to Dunleer fire station and John Molloy, who is the retained fire station officer and who is about to turn 60 on 24 May. The problem is that the legislation has not yet been amended to increase the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 62. I initially dealt with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. It has now gone to the Department of Public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Although the topic is housing, the Deputy might send a note on that to the Taoiseach.

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...