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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: That is appalling behaviour. The Deputy has got her moment again for South East Radio.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Well, good for you. Let me tell you every time someone ends up in the Slaney, you will get your moment.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: That is scandalous and appalling.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: The issue of homelessness in Limerick has never been so bad. There is a complete absence of available emergency accommodation for those who desperately need it. Homeless service providers have spoken to me, as they do on a regular basis, to say there simply are not nearly enough beds available in the city. On any given evening, there can be up to 70 people sleeping rough. This part of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is doing that. Some €303 million has been made available for delivery of homeless services in 2025. That is money going to local authorities, including Limerick, so they can provide emergency accommodation, homeless prevention tenancies and sustainable services. There have been very significant increase in funding for the housing first initiative-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: It clearly is not working.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----where most of the homeless non-governmental bodies came to us to ask whether the Government could fund housing first significantly. The Government did that and we certainly work on providing services for prevention and then to enable people to exit homelessness-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: It is not working.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----to tenancies as quickly as possible. Much of it is working, by the way.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: It is not working.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: About 6,848 adult preventions and exits have been achieved-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: We have doubled the numbers since three years ago. How can that be working?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let the Tánaiste answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in 2023. That is a 25% increase on the 5,478 adult prevention and exits achieved in 2022. Huge resources are going into the area and that there are more and more people, with the growth of the population, and so forth. It is complicated-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: So the Tánaiste will not-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----with regard to what makes up the composition of homelessness but I do not accept that resources are not being provided, they are.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are out of time now but I have four remaining Deputies and I will take 30-second questions from each of them. I call Deputy Niamh Smyth to speak, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I want to raise very important strategic infrastructure, not just for the Cavan-Monaghan area but for the whole north-east region as well, which is the east-west link corridor from Dundalk to Sligo. First, I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, who was not two weeks in the Department when he met the council officials in Cavan County Council to hear about the woes with regard to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: My apologies, Deputy, but I must call Deputy Wynne to speak now.