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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: We believe there should be a balance and we believe home ownership matters. In many respects through Sinn Féin's schemes - given the cap of €80,000 on its shared equity scheme, for example - one could never own a house if they were a garda married to a nurse or whatever. That is a fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin would put a cap of €80,000 on it and get rid of the shared equity scheme and the first home scheme. That is the bottom line.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But we would deliver affordable homes, which is something the Government is not doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Well, the answer is that the Government is living in a parallel universe-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----and the Tánaiste actually does not know the Government's own housing policy. He stood there and tried to justify this. I understand his dilemma because I asked him a simple question, which was whether he believes the houses the Government is delivering on Oscar Traynor Road, at an entry price of €400,000 for a three-bedroom house and going up to €475,000, are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: It is affordability.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----is about gifting public land to private developers. This scheme should be 100% affordable - social housing and affordable homes. I ask the question very simply. Is €400,000 affordable for a three-bedroom house in Coolock, in the Tánaiste's view? It goes up to €475,000. It could have been affordable. This month, Ó Cualann has delivered three-bedroom...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I did not have any discussions with the Ceann Comhairle and I would never do so, given he is an independent constitutional officeholder and he decides. He was probably making a correct call in that our Department does not have specific authority for advertising standards. The Deputy makes the case that in previous instances, the Department of Health may have been involved in amending the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is at least as important, however, if not more. There is a public health element. One in ten children in this country is suffering from asthma and fossil fuel cars are a major contributor to that. Of course, there is also the biggest challenge facing humanity as a whole: climate catastrophe, for which the fossil fuel companies are the number one culprits. The Minister has been the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As I said in my initial response, in principle I agree with the Deputy. If our world is burning, as it is, and if people are profiteering from that, the issue is how we can reduce demand or the impacts of advertising from such bodies that are causing damage. I do not disagree in principle, but the exact means for application are something we would have to consider and for which we would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

North-South Interconnector

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of meetings he has undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector; the outcome of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27574/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: How many meetings has the Minister undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector and what has been the outcome of those meetings?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Responsibility for the regulation of the electricity market is a matter for the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, an independent regulator accountable to a committee of the Oireachtas and not to me as Minister. The CRU was assigned responsibility for the regulation of the electricity sector following the enactment of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and subsequent legislation....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Minister stated this is an essential infrastructure project. I recall, when I was a member of Cavan County Council, having discussions about this project, which must have been in 2006 or 2007. We are almost 20 years on and the project has not moved at all. The main reason it has not moved is that the landowners are totally opposed, from my consultation with them, to this going over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have the exact figures but this issue has been subject to debate. I have had extensive meetings with the county councils in counties impacted but also with the North-South Ministerial Council, where the Deputy's Sinn Féin colleagues in Northern Ireland have a critical role. They agree with me that we need this project. It needs to be built and it is vital for both the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask Deputy Tully to respond briefly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I accept the importance of this project but I am concerned about how it is going to proceed if there is such opposition on the ground. Is there a contingency plan to deal with that? Have EirGrid, the Government or the Oireachtas committee referenced by the Minister that has oversight of this issue any other plans in place to deal with this? All I can see is strong opposition on the...