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- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 8: In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(c) housing and infrastructure deficits in relation to such years as the Minister considers appropriate,".
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Bill received for final consideration.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Question proposed: "That the Bill do now pass."
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: As we have discussed, the Bill provides for the establishment of two funds, that is, the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. These funds were first proposed in response to two trends, namely, the future costs likely to be incurred by the State and the growth of corporation tax receipts in recent years. We all acknowledge that we have seen a significant...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: I thank Deputies on all sides of the House for their co-operation in the consideration of this Bill on Second Stage, in the really good engagement we had on Committee Stage and again today on Report Stage. To those who say they are in favour in principle of a sovereign wealth fund but are against the specific one brought forward by the Government after a huge amount of work, I say, "Please...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 33; Níl, 74; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Tá Chris Andrews, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Sorca Clarke, Michael Collins, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Pa Daly, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Kathleen Funchion, Thomas Gould, Johnny Guirke, Martin Kenny, Claire Kerrane, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Mattie McGrath, Denise Mitchell, Imelda Munster,...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Amendment declared lost.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I say this often, but Deputy Gould is 100% right. Earlier, I said the reason the Government is getting the Bill so wrong is it does not understand what is happening in the housing crisis. Deputy Gould put to the Minister what is happening on his doorstep and he seems to think everything is okay. It is far from okay. Deputy Gould also mentioned the statistics released today. What is...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: I am well able to acknowledge the scale of the challenge and Deputy Gould should have the good grace to acknowledge where progress is being made. Progress is being made not just in Cork but all over the country. I will let the Deputy speak to Niall Ó Donnabháin, Brian Geaney or whoever in Cork City Council. They will take him through the numbers. The council is making progress,...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: Is HAP social housing?
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: Of course we need to do more, but if the Deputy looks at-----
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please let the Minister-----
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: He is not answering.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: HAP is State-supported housing. We can dance on a pinhead about what it is. Of course it is not council housing, but it is State-supported housing in that the State is paying. It is not the ideal. We want people to be in secure affordable homes with long-term secure tenure. That is the State's objective and why we have gone back to building at real scale. A total of 800 social housing...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: When Deputy Gould referred to price increases in the Minister's community, he challenged him. House prices in the Minister's community have increased by 50%. There has been an increase of €130,000 for an existing home in the Minister's community, a fact he ignored. He said the Government is delivering affordable and cost-rental housing. The Government has missed every single...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4: In page 12, line 26, to delete “designated environmental projects” and substitute “designated environmental projects or designated housing projects”.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: I thank Deputy Doherty for tabling these amendments and all the other Deputies for their contributions. We had a good discussion of this issue on Committee Stage. We do not agree entirely, that is for sure, but I set out then and am happy to set out now the reasons we are adopting the approach we are. I reiterate at the outset that housing will benefit from the establishment of the...