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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...

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

Catherine Connolly: I will wait a minute before calling on the Minister of State. There is another group of speakers indicated who are not here. I know they have been caught unawares because the debate has moved quickly. I will proceed to the Minister of State in the next minute or two if nobody comes in.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. There is very little I can disagree with in anything they have said.

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

Brendan Howlin: So you are not proceeding.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I will say the point critically here. We are at the end of a political cycle and we can see the quietness around Leinster House today. This is a three-party coalition. There is no commitment in the programme for Government on Seanad reform. It is not there. Critically from all of our perspectives, it is important as we look towards our manifestos for the upcoming general election to...