Results 181-200 of 1,026,593 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Leo Varadkar)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: SNAs are given 21 days' leave if deemed to be at risk in the work environment. Teachers and SNAs should be treated the same and I do not want to see any disparity. Providing special needs assistance is a vocation, as far as I am concerned. Tomorrow at my constituency office, there will be queues of people looking for facilities for their children. When a child goes to school and is looked...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Why is the Deputy shouting? We can hear him.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: How do we know? The Central Statistics Office is telling us. The Government is locking out an entire generation from home ownership and locking people into sky-high rents. The vulture funds and investors are sweeping up those houses and renting them out at astronomical prices. That is Government policy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's time is up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will ask a simple question again. The Tánaiste can shake his head all he wants. Where are the 50,000 affordable houses that he promised to deliver that would cost less than €250,000? Please answer that question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is noticeable from his reply that the Deputy avoided any response to the fundamental problem-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: It is Leaders' Questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Build the homes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please Deputies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There are 550 first-time buyers each week now buying their first home. Mortgage drawdowns by first-time buyers reached a new peak at almost 26,000 in 2023. That is the highest annual level since 2007.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: When Fianna Fáil crashed the economy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Listening to the Deputy one would be forgiven for thinking that none of that is happening. What has been important in that is the expanded help-to-buy scheme of €30,000 to support home ownership.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It pushes up house prices.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: More than 45,000 first-time buyers have benefited and the Deputy's party wants to take that support away from those who want to buy their first home.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It pushes up house prices.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The first home scheme and the shared equity scheme was opposed by the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Where are the 50,000 houses?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Build the 50,000 houses.