Results 141-160 of 1,028,034 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Eamon Ryan OR speaker:Imelda Munster)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For those who are not convinced by the Taoiseach's answer, the housing protest will be outside Customs House at 2.30 p.m. this Saturday. I hope people will come out onto the streets for it. No one disputes that there will be a private sector in housing, but the private sector should not be subsidised at the expense of delivering the social and affordable housing that it is incapable of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is picking one line out of approximately 400 pages of a report, which I accept he has not had an opportunity to get or read yet, but what I would suggest-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been phoning the journalist to try to get it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: We will be publishing it today. When the Deputy sees the actions, he will see that many of them are underway. We agree with many of them, by the way. Many of them are in line with Government policy. Many of them are things that we are working on right now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down a land price registry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy O'Callaghan will fully agree.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Government voted down our proposals on a land price registry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: There are some with which I am not sure Deputy Boyd Barrett will agree either. I do not think it will be a case of every single recommendation meeting the satisfaction of every political viewpoint in this House but there are good ideas here. We need good ideas. We need to be open to listening to new ideas. We should never be so complacent or arrogant to suggest, when it comes to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: That is a great line, but unfortunately the graph shows that you are wrong. Look at the increase in social housing building since my party came to office. You are, yet again, wrong.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Have a graph with need beside that. How many social homes are needed? It is twice what you are building.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy Ó Broin.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: If a contest in fluency and verbosity was an Olympic sport, you would win a gold medal, but it does not build houses. We are not afraid to take more radical steps when it comes to housing. That is why we asked the Housing Commission to come up with ideas. How do you build a sustainable model that does not have boom and bust, with ghost estates one year and no housing supply the next? That...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: And all the time calling for an increase in social housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Simon Communities said it must increase as well.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Where are the social homes?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Ó Broin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Let me tell you this. It is 153 days since Deputy Mary Lou McDonald told the people of this country that she would provide homes for €300,000 in Dublin. I ask the same question that I ask every day: how? Please tell us.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How do you do it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Published it in 2021.