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Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What the Housing Commission report states is that we do not need more of the same. While the Minister and the Government continue with the back-slapping, I want to explain why their housing plan is not working in Mayo. Last year, less than half of the target for newly built social and affordable housing in Mayo was delivered. That has devastating consequences for the county. A woman with...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate Housing for All. When it comes to housing as a public good, we in the Labour Party believe in three pillars for a housing system that works for all. The first is social and affordable housing. The second is security of tenure for renters. The third is a more ambitious home-building programme. For us, the marker of the Government's Housing for All...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This week.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This week. Apologies. He might as well launch it today. Let us be very clear: if RTÉ had not leaked it today, the Minister would not be publishing this week. How do we know? It is because he got a report on the right to housing from the Housing Commission last August and buried it. It was nowhere near as devastating as this one. I suspect that the Minister was hoping he could sit...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I challenge the Minister to publish it tomorrow. He should put it in the public domain tomorrow and then provide Government time next week for us to have a proper debate on it. Let us examine the Minister's plan. He says his targets are being met; however, if the targets are deliberately designed to be so low, ignoring the deficit that has existed, it is hardly surprising he is meeting...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a perfect storm in housing, particularly in north Donegal. Issues arise owing to the cost of rent and the cost of new homes, but when you throw in concrete blocks it really is a perfect storm. There are several factors, including the fact that many people cannot sell the houses they are in. Donegal County Council cannot purchase homes because they have defective concrete blocks and...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It must be hard for the Minister not to understand why, despite all of the evidence that his plan is allegedly working, pretty much everybody else does not accept that is the case. While week after week the Minister dismisses those of us in the Opposition who highlight the lived reality of people unable to access secure and affordable homes, it will be virtually impossible for the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As we go around to canvass in Mayo, transport and public transport are among the biggest issues that come up. In addition to the lack of bus shelters and basic transport infrastructure, what comes up is the lack of interconnectedness between private and public operators and between city buses run by the likes of Bus Éireann, Citylink and GoBus and Iarnród Éireann services....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the sentences that has been repeated to me a lot over the past week is that the Government seems not to understand that there is a country outside of the Dublin area. There is a real divide in this country. It is really important to recognise the economic situation, especially in the midlands and north west, which is now a lagging area with lower incomes than the European average....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is very good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Rural Ireland wants to use public transport but we are making it very difficult. The 800 bus through Tullow town only meets the Arklow train to Dublin and not the Carlow train to Dublin. It is also stops far short of the new ETB campus on the Kilkenny Road in Carlow. The Taoiseach will know there are thousands of learners there but it is not served by public transport. We need to address...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I am new to Taoiseach's questions but we have come a long way from asking when the Cabinet committee will next meet. We will do our best. I thank colleagues for raising a variety of very important issues. I will take a moment on the very important issue Deputy Kenny raised about data sharing between the RSA and the local authorities and when that issue will be resolved. The RSA is...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the opportunity to provide Teachtaí with an update on housing and the Government’s progress since the publication of Housing for All back in September 2021, just over two and a half years ago. While challenges undoubtedly remain and we continue to operate in an ever-changing environment, real progress has been made. It is important to take time to reflect on this and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is a local authority.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: This is a local authority. I take the point. That should be taken into consideration before people are housed. I would have thought that it was, although that is not to comment on the specifics of this case. As I travel throughout the country, I visit many towns that are becoming autism-friendly towns. I am delighted to hear about Ballina and Castlebar from Deputy Conway-Walsh. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Niamh Smyth: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [19970/24]