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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (23 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State for some of those facts and figures. I recognise that there has been a move by the Department to increase the access to naloxone. I would like to give the Minister of State an example of what it is like for service workers on the ground at the moment and how bizarre the current situation actually is. We have made naloxone available to workers. If I work in...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Rebuilding Ireland has not worked. Housing For All has not worked. They are part of the problem. I spent 17 years at local authority level. We stopped building houses in 2009. It is on the record. Construction was suspended. We introduced HAP on a pilot basis and put it on a statutory footing in 2004. People were housed if they got a HAP property. Now there are no houses available at...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: There is a problem to which the Deputy has referred. There is need for contact with the local authorities to try to ensure every opportunity is taken to prevent homelessness and not to impede the HAP system on top of everything else. People will become homeless very quickly when the tenancy has expired.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The intention and work of the Government is to end the dependency on HAP. A total of 16,000 families have transferred from HAP to permanent accommodation solutions. That is to be noted. The Government has built more social houses in the past four and a half years than in the past 50 years. I was a member of a local authority for 16 years. I remember distinctly during that time when a...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: We have time for one more question and response. Question No. 70 was taken with an earlier group of questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Question No. 72 has been answered.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: Question No. 71 cannot be taken and Question No. 72 has been answered. The next question we can take is Question No. 80.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 66 answered with Question No. 57.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 67 answered with Question No. 65.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 68 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 69 answered with Question No. 65.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 70 answered with Question No. 57.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 71 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Question No. 73 answered with Question No. 57.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)
Questions Nos. 74 to 79, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Housing Provision
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units delivered by the local authorities in Galway city and county in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the targets in respect of each of those years for each local authority; the number of same that are new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42870/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: This is a very specific question on the number of social housing units delivered by the local authorities in Galway city and council in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the targets set in respect of them. Have the targets been achieved?
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will get Deputy Connolly more detail on this as I do not have the full supplementary reply. In 2022, the build target for Galway city was 305 and for Galway county the build target was 230. In 2023, the build target for the city was 219 and for Galway county it was 351. In 2020, the build target was 224 for Galway city and for Galway county the build target was 358. I do not have to...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. That-----