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Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: In today's Ireland, hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and families face an impossible situation. They are confronted with a housing crisis of unprecedented proportion. Successive Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Governments have utterly failed on housing. Bad planning, mismanagement and downright dereliction have resulted in one of the worst shortages of social and affordable...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Sin críochnaíonn na ráitis. That concludes the statements. I acknowledge the presence of the soon-to-be-appointed ambassador from Palestine, the first ever. She has sat through this discussion for almost four hours, which is not easy to do given what is ongoing. I commend her on that.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — housing policy is not only about the number of homes delivered but the quality of those homes for tenants living in them; — as the State's largest landlord, Government has a particular responsibility to ensure, through funding for local authorities, that social housing tenants live in good quality homes; —...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Where is the senior Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, for the discussion of this very important motion? The man who is responsible for housing in this State does not even have the decency to come to the House this evening. Absolute contempt is being shown to the hundreds of thousands of people who live in 176,000 social homes when the Minister does not have the decency to turn up. It is a...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Chris Andrews: The public housing stock is the forgotten element in the Government’s housing policy. Those living in the flats and houses owned by Dublin City Council already know that. I do not know a block of flats managed by Dublin City Council that does not have serious issues, whether public health issues, dampness, mould, neglect, leaks, floods, electrical faults or rats - the list goes on...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Palestinian head of mission, who is soon to be the Palestinian ambassador to the House. We look forward to working well with her over many years to come. Our recognition of the State of Palestine today fits three fundamental purposes, and indeed many more. First, it makes clear our view that it is time that Palestine takes its place among the nations of the world and that...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador here today and everyone who was in the Gallery earlier. I will start by sending solidarity to the 1 million Palestinians besieged by the Israeli onslaught in Rafah. Ireland and the world is standing in shock and horror at what we are seeing unfold. Now we must come together to force Israel to stop this genocide. It was a proud day last week...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: What value is given to life? If recognising Palestine saves one life, is it not worth it? History is a funny thing when you look at it one way. When you look back it is something that is taken for granted. When Hitler was on his reign, the media said that humanity would never see something like this again. Then we had Rwanda when the Hutus and the Tutsis slaughtered one another and...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Harkin is not with us. Deputies Pringle, Connolly and Collins are sharing time.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: All eyes are on Rafah as we are forced to watch in horror the utter brutality of Israel's attack on the Palestinian people. The level of bloodshed and devastation the Palestinian people have had to endure, especially in recent months, is unimaginable. Israel's bombing of a camp of tents of displaced people is indefensible. The images and stories coming out of Rafah are truly gut-wrenching....

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this. I have just over three minutes so I want to be as precise as possible. First, I welcome the Palestinian ambassador, who in recent months has acted with utter professionalism in the face of genocide and the slaughter of her people. I have found her at every stage to be utterly professional while full of humanity in contrast to the...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome the Palestinian ambassador to the House and those who were in the Gallery earlier. I also want to thank those who have supported the Palestinian people down through the decades and are continuing to do so. Sadly, the recognition of the State of Palestine has been a long time coming. It is ten years since the Dáil unanimously passed a Sinn Féin motion calling for this to...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: I have been somewhat reluctant to contribute to this debate, not because of my concern about the reaction of my constituents but because the mere mention, or appearance, of taking sides is often met with scorn or worse, the utterly corrupted idea of antisemitism. That should not be the case. We must be confident in calling out that which is wrong. The taking of life is wrong. The taking...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak in this very important debate. While many people in the House have said that this has come too late and should have come earlier, the fact is that it has come. It is the right decision and it had to be taken now, in view of the happenings over the past six or seven months. The situation was not started by the Israelis but it was continued by the...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When they bring a child into the world, every parent does so with the same mixture of hope and trepidation. We have the same hopes and fears as we take that tiny bundle into our arms as we consider the enormous and fragile potential of that human life. We hold our mind's eye the milestones we hope to witness, the graduations, weddings, arrival of grandchildren, skinned knees, lost teeth and...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: What a long-awaited and momentous day to finally have the State of Palestine formally recognised by Ireland. Iontach ar fad. Finally, the voices of those who marched, protested and petitioned in their thousands for international law to be upheld and shouted loud and long for Palestine and her people to be recognised have been heard. Ireland and the Irish fought our own struggles with...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Ireland has a deeply felt understanding of the desire of people for the recognition of their own place, culture and existence. Eight hundred years of occupation and a great deal of repression did nothing to quell the Irish desire for freedom, self-determination, self-rule and the international recognition of our civil rights. The Irish State as it is today is often used as an international...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan will share time with two other Deputies, although they are not here. We will see what happens.