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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
School Accommodation
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue matter this evening. Tubber is a very small village situated right on the Clare-Galway border. It is a few kilometres south of Gort and a few kilometres north of Crusheen. It is a beautiful village. I am sure that as a Mayo man, the Minister of State can almost imagine how rural, scenic and beautiful Tubber is. In 1852, like...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Alan Dillon: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter and for providing the opportunity to outline to the House the current position with Tubber National School on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Foley. Deputy Crowe has been a real advocate in relation to the concerns and issues raised in his own constituency in County Clare. I refer to the current position of an...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for that good, positive response. It is in line with what the Minister, Deputy Foley, communicated to me earlier. It is really good news. I have a few points to make. I will not name a Department official because it is not fair to do so in this Chamber but there is one official who has been outstanding on this matter. I and the school have plagued him...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1 put.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Seán Canney: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2024)
Seán Canney: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Brian Stanley - To discuss funding for youth services in counties Laois and Offaly. Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the increased administrative burden on small and rural-based community employment schemes. Deputy Violet-Anne...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (8 May 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
School Accommodation
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Carol Nolan: I want to bring forward this issue today about Charleville National School. It really is an emergency situation. Accommodation has been approved for two modular units, which will consist of a special education room, a classroom and a special tuition room. I say it is an emergency situation because the school will not be able to open in September if the modular accommodation is not in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline to the House on behalf of the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, the current position relating to a capital project to deliver additional accommodation for Charleville National School under the Department’s special educational needs, SEN, reconfiguration and modular accommodation programme....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)
Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister of State for that information and indeed the constructive and positive response. Again, I stress that it is absolutely vital that the modular units are delivered on time for September. I welcome the fact that there will be weekly meetings regarding the project to ensure that it is moving and on track. I also welcome the fact that it has entered the delivery phase....
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: The reason that not only do we have an ongoing housing crisis but it is getting worse is quite simple. The Government has set targets for social and affordable housing that are far too low and year-on-year they have managed to miss these targets. To give some solace to the Minister of State, I can tell him one target that it did actually meet in 2023. It was the affordable housing target...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Pa Daly: I recall when I was on Kerry County Council there were some years, in and around 2017 and 2018, when one social housing unit was built and completed in the town of Tralee. In another year, there were three. Since the Government came into power all it has done is take the baton from those disastrous policies and continue with them, with overreliance on the private sector. It is no wonder...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The CSO residential property prices for County Laois showed a jump of 12% in a 12-month period. Wage inflation has not jumped to meet this. This is making it harder for ordinary workers to purchase their first home. Due to the spiralling prices more workers are reliant and waiting for some type of an affordable housing programme to come onstream. So far the Government has delivered only...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate this is one of the first Private Members' debates for the Minister of State in his new role but I would have been embarrassed to have to read out the speech that he read given the record of his party in government. Let us just look at the facts. Since his party has been in government, house prices have doubled, rents have doubled and the most shocking figure is that child...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Alan Dillon: I want to acknowledge and thank all those who have contributed to this evening's debate. I want to echo the comments made earlier by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and reassert the Government's commitment to tackling the challenge in the housing sector. We know the challenges are having a real impact on people's lives and on the nation as a whole. We understand the urgency and the...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is a fact.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: How many drawdowns?