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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: For a couple of days I really could not get my head around what the Government was at in relation to this. Was it some sort of internal politics between Departments, trying to bounce somebody into making an announcement? Was it sheer incompetence? I could not understand it. Why would the Government just walk into a problem that had not been on the horizon? Why would it create this stress...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I commend the students who gathered outside the gates this evening and the students who are here this evening, including the new student union representatives, for pushing back against this desperate situation. Parents and students need to know how much they will be paying in nine weeks time. They need to know this now. People have to budget. Members of this Government do not seem to get...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: Whether it is student fees or protection for student renters, the Government continues to sow uncertainty and punish young people. We should be breaking down barriers to higher education and apprenticeships, not erecting them. Worse still, while this Government is obsessed with leaks to the media and innuendo, as we heard earlier, young people and their families have no idea where they...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: For many students, this €1,000 hike is not just a number on a page. It is the difference between accepting a college place and not; between staying in education and dropping out; between progress and paralysis. It is not about affordability alone. It is also about credibility and trust and the repeated failure of the Government to live up its own words. The 2020 and 2025 programmes...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — the Government is committed to easing the burden for students and their families; — the Government will progress its Programme for Government commitments to improve supports for students by increasing maintenance grants, reducing the student...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I commend the motion to the House. The Minister and the Government are all over the place when it comes to student fees. The Minister went on the national broadcaster and scared the bejeysus out of every student and parent across the State when he told them in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis that student fees were going to go up. It came like a bolt out of the blue for every parent...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister must be completely detached from the reality of the cost-of-living crisis if he thinks it is okay to heap €1,000 on students and families this September. The Barnardos cost-of-living report for 2025 found: One in five families cut back on or went without heating (18%) and electricity (17%) over the past six months. More than two in five families going without or...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: What kind of government looks struggling students in the eye and says, "You're on your own"? That would be those sitting on the opposite side of the House. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael came into power on a narrative of fairness and support for young people, and access to education, but instead we got the Minister touting that student fees will rise in September. From the Taoiseach, the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I thank all Deputies for their engagement on this Stage of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025. It is imperative that the Government takes all measures necessary to increase the supply of housing. Let me be clear that no single measure will solve the challenges we face on its own, but I firmly believe the combined effect of the measures being introduced through this Bill will...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Question put and agreed to.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

John McGuinness: Committee Stage will be taken tomorrow.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — comments by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless T.D. on RTÉ where he indicated that in the absence of a cost of living package this year student fees will rise; and — the Minister's statement coupled with the refusal of Government to provide a cost-of-living...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: I welcome the Bill. It makes good, necessary adjustments. It reflects some of the responsiveness to what has been a frustrating planning environment but we need to be clear that the issue is not primarily judicial review. I have been listening to every Member. There are so many good ideas in the House but we need the planning law that we are making now to drive delivery, not only manage...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important matter to allow extension of time for planning developments that are held up for one reason or another. Indeed, we had this facility a few years ago, where applicants could get a second five years if they looked for it. The then Minister, in his wisdom, decided to stop that because he felt that developers were hoarding land,...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Minister for the briefing and for the time he has put into committee meetings, which were very informative. I welcome elements of this amendment Bill, in particular with regard to judicial reviews and what I would call the disassociated objectors from one end of the country to the other. With the developer-led model, we cannot lose sight of serving the common good in tandem with...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

John McGuinness: I have to ask the Deputy to conclude. I call Deputy McGrath.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome this legislation and I welcome the Minister to his position. I saw how steadfast he was against big industry and big business at the time of the gambling Bill. I fought with him on that Bill but he had the resolve to stick with it. I thank him for meeting and engaging with us, and for the briefings. The Minister has a monumental task. I have said it to him privately and I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

John McGuinness: The Deputy is out of time.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry. The Minister should try to bring common sense at all times to his role and we will support him in every way we can in the work he is doing.