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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----that is directed at delivering affordable homes for families, as well as affordable rents and finally tackling the scourge of homelessness. It is a plan rooted in concern for citizens and communities and not kowtowing to the high and mighty vulture funds, cuckoo funds, the big developers and the corporate landlords. That is the Fine Gael way, a Cheann Comhairle, and I look forward to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: Me too.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is a fact the Government's belated housing targets are 20% below what is required according to its own Housing Commission. These are not Sinn Féin figures; they are the Government's figures. The Government has yet again failed to recognise the scale of the crisis and the need we face. I asked the Taoiseach to explain the fact that he has undershot by 20%. The memo was brought to...
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (5 Nov 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: When Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil joined together with the Green Party in coalition four years ago, they promised that it would be the Government to fix housing. This was a very bold claim from the parties that had, in fact, created the housing crisis in the first place. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have had more than a decade to solve housing but it has only made it worse. Now, as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: They can choose to back a real housing plan from Sinn Féin. This is a plan to make housing affordable, to bring homeownership back to the reach of working people, to get families off council waiting lists and into homes, to end long-term homelessness and to give hope back to a generation so badly failed by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. This is hope that they can have a home of their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP29: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: In the context of the upcoming COP, what indicators, language or text coming out of that regarding movement in the right direction are being considered? I presume the witnesses are encouraging the Irish delegation to use its influence at a European level to push in that direction. Are there particular asks from the witnesses regarding what they want to see at the back end of the COP?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP29: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. I have a question on the public transport subhead, the reallocation of funding and the additional capital. I think that the Minister of State said there was a shift of €29 million from capital to current expenditure. It certainly is the case that there are increased numbers on public transport. I think it is a shared policy...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I can look at the cancellations: the 7.30 a.m. 103 service from Dublin to Ratoath; the 8.40 a.m. from Ratoath to Dublin; the 8.25 a.m. 109 from Dunshaughlin to Dublin; and the 7.42 a.m. NX from Dublin to Navan. Those were all cancellations this morning, which is, unfortunately, par for the course. Every one of those buses is full. There are 80 or 60 people. When those buses are cancelled,...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: Am I okay for another question?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I might get the Minister of State to run through a couple of points briefly. He might come back to me on the 20% fare reduction in respect of private operators. There is a shared objective for public transport. There are ambitious plans in respect of Connecting Ireland and the rural bus transport network. I encourage the speedy roll-out of that. There are challenges relating to drivers,...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: On the 20% for private operators in terms of public transport, has that been or will it be considered?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024) Darren O'Rourke: The Minister of State has name-checked his party colleagues in the mid-east very well but I am glad he acknowledges the hardest work is being done by myself and my colleague Councillor Maria White on the issues of public transport.