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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: There are 4,000 local authority homes in the State that are empty. That is an incredible figure. It takes eight months on average to get these local authority homes back into use. Many of them are empty for well over a year. It takes three weeks for private rental accommodation to come back into use. The difference is that private landlords cannot leave their accommodation empty for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I appeal to Government to consider a ban on no-fault evictions. I have looked at the research on rental markets. I heard the Tánaiste say there is fear that this would shrink the rental market but the evidence indicates that it would help to grow the rental market. That fear is unfounded. There were only 35 exits from homelessness in County Clare in the period from 15 June to 22...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank colleagues for their questions. In response to Deputy Ó Murchú, I send Dundalk Football Club my best as well. In relation to the Housing Commission, I have obviously been briefed on the report by the Minister for housing. The Housing Agency is now working its way through each of the recommendations. I look forward to the report being debated in the House. We should...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: ...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Thirty-First Report of Standing Committee and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
- Thirty-First Report of Standing Committee and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 34, and with effect from 19th September, 2024— (1) approves the Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th September, 2024, and discharges members from Committees and appoints members to Committees accordingly, in substitution for, in the...
- Thirty-First Report of Standing Committee and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh: Motion (18 Sep 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (18 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Cabinet Committees
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36562/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36723/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. The Cabinet committee on housing last met on Thursday, 11 July. The next meeting of the Cabinet committee will take place shortly. I believe it will be at the start of October. The committee works to ensure a co-ordinated approach to the implementation of Housing for All and programme for Government commitments regarding housing. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: As there are quite a number of speakers, they will each have a minute and a half.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy McDonald. The Taoiseach will accept that it has been difficult time for supporters of Dundalk Football Club. I wish the new consortium led by John Temple, which has taken over the club, well. We are at the beginning of a process. Dundalk FC could have gone to the wall, which would have impacted on the integrity of the entire league. There...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy's minute and a half is up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: According to the Housing Commission report, we need at least 300,000 new homes in the next five years, which is an average of 60,000 per year. Has the Taoiseach or the Minister for housing met the Housing Commission or do they have plans to meet it? Have they sought a briefing from the commission or its officials on its report? Does the Taoiseach accept the report's two key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that an affordable purchase scheme will be carried out, but the criteria regarding affordable housing need to be looked at. A price of €305,000 for a house in Dundalk is not affordable.