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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)
Joan Collins: I welcome that Uisce Éireann will now be audited. It is about time. Its 2023 accounts will probably not go to the public accounts committee until next year, however, as it will not produce its report until the end of 2024. I am putting on record the issues that are happening within Irish Water. The Minister of State made the point it is not a publicly owned regulated utility. That...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the point the Deputy made. It goes beyond my ability to respond on behalf of the Minister because I do not have the operational knowledge. I certainly hear the Deputy. It is important that she takes her opportunity to put us on notice. It is a different model. That is the one that was chosen for the purposes of trying to invest in future waterworks. There may just be...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (11 Jul 2024)
Waste Management
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (11 Jul 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue. Much has been said on waste management services, bin collections and the services that are provided. There are very significant issues with them, including complications, contradictions, inefficiencies, and side-by-side collection. A huge number of people do not have a bin service. We have a significant challenge and problem...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: The work the Minister of State has done on this question is highly interesting and I appreciate it. She has even formulated a bit of a solution to the issue of private rental accommodation. A huge amount of inspections have been done by Clare County Council. I rent and my property has been inspected. I was impressed by how quickly the council conducted the work. There is an issue with...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Not only that but there is an important effect for the sheer humanity of having appropriate living standards. The Deputy is quite right to raise it. Under section 34 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, any person who contravenes the regulations I discussed in my previous contribution, fails to comply with an improvement notice or re-lets a house on the private side will be...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)
Water Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)
Joan Collins: According to Irish Water-Uisce Éireann's 2023 annual report, published last month, there was €10.57 million paid in bonuses to the company's staff, a 7% increase on 2022. We know from previous annual reports these bonuses are stacked towards the top earners. In 2021, bonuses averaged €6,560 per staff member, yet the top earners received €19,171 each. There was...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Building Regulations
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, for facilitating this debate as it is the last Topical Issue debate before the recess and we will not return until September. I wish to raise the important matter of regulation for renters. The Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2019 mandate a proper state of repair and adequate...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations (11 Jul 2024)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage but I also appear as a constituency TD. I am well aware of the issue of mould, particularly for HAP tenants in the private rental sector. Before coming to the House, such is the importance of the issue to me, I went through my constituency database to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Jul 2024)
Thomas Byrne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Ó Cuív. Bhí mé ag éisteacht go géar leis an méid a bhí a rá aige. Caithfidh mé a rá, i dtosach báire, agus tá a fhios ag an saol é seo, go bhfuil an fhreagracht maidir le soláthair lóistín d’iarrthóir ar chosaint idirnáisiúnta agus do theifigh ag...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Glacaim leis go bhfuil fáilte roimh theifigh, bíodh siad ag teacht ón Úcráin nó aon áit eile ar domhan a bhfuil cos ar bolg ar siúl inti. Ag an am céanna, níl aon cheist, má thagann mórchuid daoine nach bhfuil Gaeilge acu isteach i gceantar láidir Gaeltachta, go n-imreoidh sé tionchar ar an teanga. Is é sin an...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Jul 2024)
Thomas Byrne: Tuigim nach bhfuil an Teachta Ó Cuív ag piocadh amach na dteifeach agus a rá go bhfuil an milleán orthu. Tá sé ag rá go bhfuil rudaí eile i gceist. Bíonn sé i gcónaí ag caint faoi chúrsaí thithíochta sna Gaeltachtaí agus na heastáit tithíochta agus na srianta atá orthu toisc ceisteanna teanga....
- Deputies Elected as MEPs: Statements (11 Jul 2024)
Matt Shanahan: It would be remiss of me not to thank you all for your thoughtful contributions. I wish each and every one of you the best of luck. I suppose I do not need to say it but I remind you again that you represent the Irish people when you are in Brussels. We hope you keep them close in your future decisions, whatever they may be.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (11 Jul 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (11 Jul 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne - To discuss poor housing conditions and lack of protections for renters. Deputy Pearse Doherty - To discuss the presence of defective concrete blocks in a community play group in Ardara, County Donegal. Deputy...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (11 Jul 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Jul 2024)
An Teanga Gaeilge
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: An bhfuil an tAire Stáit ag tógáil na ceiste seo?