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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Hogan. I have two questions for the Climate Change Advisory Council. The fact is that 30% of housing development is taking place outside of built-up areas and that is a very high percentage. We have also problems with affordability issues related to homeownership in more compact areas. If we want to get to the levels of compact growth we need, those problems have to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: There are really good objectives and policy in this area but it seems we have been poor at delivery. For example, a huge number of data centres have been constructed but we have not realised the potential for district heating from that in terms of the heat generated. Is there something missing that needs to be in the NPF to ensure we start delivering on making use of excess heat from data...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: This is something a good planning system would capture and would ensure happens. It may not belong in the NPF but if the planning system does not ensure we do things in the most efficient and environmentally friendly way that is feasible, then where will that be captured?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy. We will move on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----and what the Taoiseach is presiding over. No matter how much they try to disentangle from each other, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party are one crowd. They might as well rename themselves and get a new party because that is what they are. The Taoiseach does not want to take on the Greens because they get ministerial posts and the posts of Taoiseach and Tánaiste for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: They liked that Deputy. I was in Kerry and there was nothing speedy about it actually. I was there for most of the day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: You did not stay long
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: Sorry now, hang on a second. The Deputy has to give me a bit of a chance. I was there and indeed when was I driving by on the road, I saw this very large portacabin-type thing - I do not know what it was - with Deputy Healy-Rae's face emblazened across it asking people to vote-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is a lorry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: -----so he is clearly ready for battle.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: It was a lorry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: No, it was not a lorry I saw. The Deputy is clearly ready for battle.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We know what it is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: There was probably no planning permission for it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: We will check that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It did not cost €326,000. You put more bicycles in here than in the bicycle shed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: I welcome the retired nurses from Kerry and thank them for their service in the health service. I will certainly have a word with them in a moment about some of the issues the Deputy has raised. I am not across the detail of that and it does not tally with my information but I will have a word with them in a moment. When it comes to the health service, I accept of course that it has to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I wish to begin by expressing my appreciation, and, I am sure, that of everybody in this House, of everybody who has worked or is working or volunteering with Templemore Community Services Centre and indeed day centres right across Ireland. We are lucky to have around 300 day centres and around 300 meals on wheels locations right across the...