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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am also interested in what Deputy Ó Broin has to say to a couple earning the average wage on a joint income of €90,000. Deputy Ó Broin floundered on this the last time we debated it on RTÉ. His plan excludes such couples entirely from the Sinn Féin scheme. Through his plan, he is telling them Sinn Féin does not want to know about them. Does Deputy...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The question will arise in the coming weeks as to whether the Irish people and those who need housing can afford another few years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. I am convinced they cannot. I am relieved that there is a viable alternative. I am passionate and committed to the vision Deputy Ó Broin has put forward on this because, for the first time in many years, it offers a...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Sorca Clarke: Almost two years ago, I stood in this House and said that housing was the real test for this Government and that it had failed and failed spectacularly, undermining our health and education systems and businesses while pushing another generation to emigrate. The only thing that has changed in the interim is that it has managed to get worse under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Sinn...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Denise Mitchell: The notion of affordable housing in this State under this Government is a myth. It is a Government soundbite that has no foundation in reality. Look at the Oscar Traynor Road development. Prices were initially proposed at €475,000 for a three-bedroom semi-detached house. After the initial outcry, this was reduced to €360,000, with the State taking a higher stake in the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The Simon Community's report entitled Locked Out of the Market was published today. It again shows that there are zero rental properties available that would be affordable for people on HAP. According to the latest report from the RTB, rents of existing tenancies have risen by 7% and 12.6% in the past year. I do not need to read reports to know that housing is completely unaffordable for...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There has been a technical issue with the distribution of the Government amendment. It is being emailed now and a hard copy will be available soon.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: agrees that the Government's Affordable Purchase Scheme is not working, while house prices continue to spiral out of control with a 10.1 per cent increase in the last 12 months according to the Central Statistics Office; notes that: - no affordable purchase homes were delivered in 2020 or 2021; and - only 323 affordable purchase homes were delivered...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A number of weeks ago, the Minister for housing stood in front of the Shanganagh Castle development in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and announced to the world that homes would be available for working people to purchase for €374,000. What the Minister forgot to tell people is that if they bought a house at that price, they would only own 70% of the home and the State would legally own...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil éinne ag iarraidh teacht isteach?

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I welcome the engagement by the Minister, and I know he engaged with Senators, particularly regarding the NDAs and the amendments that will brought forward accordingly. I welcome that. That engagement was important. The second change that is being brought in, related to the private records and ensuring that they are protected, preserved and that no harm comes to them, is obviously an...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil éinne eile ag iarraidh teacht isteach? Níl. The Minister to conclude.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Kerrane for her contribution. We will have the opportunity to discuss the provisions of the Bill in depth tomorrow, in respect of the original two proposals which are, as we know, to introduce a right for women to defer maternity leave for up to a year if they become ill during their maternity leave and allow them recover for the particular serious illness they are facing but...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 6.09 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 6.15 p.m. Sitting suspended at 6.09 p.m. and resumed at 6.15 p.m.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Question put.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The division will be taken tomorrow, immediately prior to Committee Stage of the Bill.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 233(2), Standing Order 187 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Maternity Protection Bill 2024, that it has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill, in order to provide for: amendments to the Employment Equality Act 1998, to restrict the use of...