Results 181-200 of 1,053,498 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Pearse Doherty OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Denise Mitchell) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Because that would make the situation even worse. Supply is the key. First, I acknowledge that, without question, homelessness and emergency accommodation can be very detrimental to children's health and to people's health in general, but particularly for children. There is no argument there. The response is not one of the norm. Rather, it is one of a multifaceted approach to prevent...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Holly Cairns: This week a primary school teacher told me about an incredibly upsetting incident in their classroom where they asked the children to draw out their house and mark the name of the rooms as Gaeilge and one child got very upset and whispered to their teacher that they could not do the exercise because they did not have a home. That is one of the 4,316 children who are homeless. The damage...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not dismiss anyone's arguments. I do not dismiss any issue. There should be an acceptance and an acknowledgement that elected representatives in this House, irrespective of party, have the same degree of concern and urgency about the homelessness crisis and housing crisis as the Deputy or anybody else does.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Bríd Smith: We do not have the same degree of responsibility the Tánaiste does. That is a nonsense thing to say.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Housing Commission report, for example-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Which the Government is sitting on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----talks about the reactive policies of the Oireachtas and Governments to the rental market. I would include the policies of the Deputy's party as part of that reactive approach-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Holly Cairns: How is Ireland different to the rest of Europe?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----which would reduce the amount of rental properties available, which would make the housing-supply problem worse and which would make the homelessness issue worse. We have witnessed over the past while an increased number of people with houses for rent exiting the rental market or pulling out because of the kind of initiatives and proposals that the Deputy has put forward.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No, because of your policies.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: We need to expand the rental market, and the supply in the rental market, not depress it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste. Táimid thar am.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and we need to do that on a number of fronts.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Opposition is in charge now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: As recently as five years ago, Ireland was being celebrated within the EU for road safety following a reduction in fatalities of over 40% yet this week Ireland's road death toll hit 100 people, meaning the overall number is now 14% higher than last year and we are just over halfway through the year. The year 2024 is on course to prove the most lethal for traffic fatalities in 15 years. ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Outrageous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----grant of €420,000 per dwelling; grant rates in keeping with advice from the Society of Chartered Surveyors; and a Government guarantee in the form of a second grant option, if required, for a period of up to 40 years. That was not in the previous scheme, which Deputy Mac Lochlainn was happy with.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The new scheme includes a revised application process, which removes the financial barrier to scheme entry; an independent appeals process for applicants; and alternative accommodation and storage costs and immediate repair works to the maximum value of €25,000, which people had asked for. It provides for the expertise of the Housing Agency in assessing applications, the inclusion of...