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- 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.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank has followed the Housing Commission in telling us that our housing needs are twice - maybe more than twice - what Housing for All projected them to be. That is how inadequate the Housing for All plan is. To meet these targets, we have to double housing output. In particular, we have to dramatically increase the social and affordable housing component of that because what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mick Barry: Did the Taoiseach just drop a rather large hint as to the timing of a general election?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not think so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mick Barry: The Central Bank stated this morning that the number of housing completions by the end of this year will be 32,000. The Taoiseach came in and told the House that the Central Bank is wrong and the number of housing completions will be 40,000. If a general election is held in February of next year, the likelihood is that before it is held, the Taoiseach will have been shown to be wrong. It...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, I ask the Taoiseach - he gave me a commitment, but I have not heard back from him - about taxi drivers who have reached the ten-year deadline to replace their taxi. It is a very expensive business to replace a taxi. As I pointed out, people who were approaching that deadline during Covid-19 got an extension but only for certain years. Drivers of cars from 2015, 2016 and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.