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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Bill. It is appropriate to see these changes made to the Residential Tenancies Act in order to align student-specific accommodation leases to the academic year. I commend the Union of Students in Ireland and student unions generally across the country. They have been campaigning and looking for this change for some time. I think we all agree...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I acknowledge that this Bill has been brought forward quickly and in a constructive manner. We have worked with the Government to ensure that what is proposed in the Bill will happen as swiftly as possible in order to try to make sure students are not forced into these leases in September. We need to make sure that the President will be in a position to sign the Bill into law as soon as...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I welcome the fact that the Bill is before the House. It is timely and absolutely necessary. I acknowledge the work done by the students' unions in raising this issue and by so many students impacted by this who have come forward. I am conscious this is the last week before the Dáil goes into recess and I have two concerns as a result. One concern is that this is something we should...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: First, I sincerely welcome that everybody in this House who has spoken clearly condemns the horrific actions of Putin. I accept that, I acknowledge it and it is important that we say it, particularly after the horror of the children's hospital. I do want to acknowledge that. To be clear, I do not expect the Deputy to follow what I say at these summits, but I did very clearly say in my...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am grateful to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and all Deputies for facilitating the debate on this urgent legislation before the summer recess. I wish to record my thanks to the Chief Whip and members of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage for enabling the Bill to be read a Second Time here today. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [27042/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [27046/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [29219/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. [29420/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 to 19, inclusive, together. I attended the summit on peace in Ukraine hosted by Switzerland on 15 and 16 June, together with over 50 other world leaders and over 100 countries and international organisations. As world leaders gathered for this important summit to talk about peace, Russia continued its relentless attacks on Ukraine, including the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is absolutely right to condemn the barbaric character of Russia's actions in Ukraine. The almost certain missile attack against a children's hospital is an absolute outrage. The kidnapping of children and the illegal and unjustifiable invasion are barbaric. There is no question about it. Really, Putin is sort of reminiscent of Stalin in his barbarism. There is no doubt,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I express my horror and outrage at the attack on civilian infrastructure and specifically the attack on the children's hospital in Kyiv by the Russian military. It is absolutely horrendous to see the pictures from that hospital. It certainly seems to be a clear war crime by the Putin regime. In relation to the summit, this was heralded as a peace summit. Obviously, though, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Taoiseach said about a cross-Border enterprise hub to deal with certain issues. I probably failed to say that there would need to be engagement with the British Government and some sort of bilateral agreement. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves might be more open than the people who sat there previously. The issue of the underfunding of the Executive needs to be dealt with....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly, one of the things we share on this island, North and South, is a very severe housing crisis affecting tens of thousands of people who are on council housing waiting lists. Down here it is 57,000 officially but actually nearer to 100,000 when one takes into account the HAP and RAS transfer lists. In the North 47,000 people are waiting for social housing, 35,000 of whom are considered...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: What action has the Taoiseach taken to implement the all-island rail review? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, transport emissions increased again last year. To reach the legally binding target for transport, they must fall 12% this year and by 12% next year. It is very likely that this simply will not happen and then the cut from 2026 to 2030 will have to be even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Brendan Smith: I very much welcome the strong message that the shared island initiative will continue to identify more investment opportunities on a cross-Border and all-Ireland basis, and quite rightly. The Ulster Canal project would not have proceeded without funding from the shared island initiative. We have so much potential in the whole area of waterways development, allied to the Shannon-Erne...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the plans for Narrow Water Bridge but we need to make sure it is built on time and within budget. I welcome a lot of the research from the shared island initiative but we need to look at research and modelling on a higher level. I do not believe I would shock anyone by saying that I believe the State has a responsibility to prepare for the possibility of constitutional change...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: That is okay.