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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I listened carefully to the Minister's response but no matter how many figures he throws across the floor at me, on the key metrics his housing policy is failing. Rents, house prices and homelessness are all up. The Minister said the number one challenge is ensuring that people can exit from homelessness, but the number of exits is simply not keeping up with the number of entries into...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have to make sure that where people end up in a situation where they do not have a home, they are supported in the best possible accommodation that can be provided for them for as short a time as possible. That is the reason for the Government support this year to the tune of €242 million for homelessness and emergency services and we will add a supplementary to that this year....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachtas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Inné, d’fhógair an Rialtas go raibh sé ag dul a thabhairt faoiseamh cánach do na daoine is saibhre sa tír seo. Ní hé seo na mílte daoine ach cúpla duine a bhfuil ciste pinsin de €2 milliún acu cheana féin. Tá sé ag dul a thabhairt faoiseamh cánach de €320,000 do na daoine seo. Tá an Stát ag...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Just to bring a bit of reality to this conversation, the Deputy will know that the previous Minister for Finance appointed Dr. Donal de Buitléir to undertake an independent examination of the standard fund threshold, which was reduced in 2014. As a Government, our main focus in respect of pensions, particularly for middle-income workers, is to ensure that they have pension provisions...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We have not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin has proposed to reduce it to 20%,-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We have not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----which would reduce the pension tax relief that they receive. Regarding the Government's decision, the Minister for Finance considered the independent de Buitléir report carefully, taking into account its recommendations. If the Deputy has seen the report, then he will know that we have not accepted all of its recommendations. The Government has agreed to implement a staggered...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The last time Fianna Fáil was in government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Our focus has always been on, in the first instance, average workers and those who assist them in making provision for their pensions and, in the second, ensuring a continued increase in the State pension, which the Government has always prioritised. We will make it a priority in this budget as well. There has been an increase of €29 in the standard weekly State pension since this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: We are steadfast on this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister is talking rubbish. I challenge him to produce an alternative budget to back up what he said about standardisation. It was a complete mistruth, and he knows it. He cannot defend this decision. I asked him a simple question about why we should ask Tesco workers, hairdressers and shop floor workers to help contribute to pension pots of €2.8 million for the wealthiest in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: If it is on average a year with local authorities, it is all their stock.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)
Questions Nos. 59 and 60 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)
Vacant Properties
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)
Michael McGrath: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expertise grants that are available to advise owners bringing vacant traditional houses back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36927/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (19 Sep 2024)
Michael Moynihan: I am taking Question No. 61 on behalf of Michael McGrath. I ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage about the expertise grants that are available to advise owners bringing vacant traditional houses back into use, and if he will make a statement on the matter.