2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published. [29328/25]
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13. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department's interdepartmental group report on the Dublin city task force recommendations. [32307/25]
24. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [32308/25]
51. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the general scheme of the defence (amendment) Bill 2025 removes, rather than reforms, the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31229/25]
First, I thank the Social Democrats for using its time to allow this joint motion to be debated. There is a lot of obfuscation from the Government and an attempt to mislead people in the countermotion and in the Minister’s speech.
It is true that the Central Bank does not sell, endorse or oversee these bonds, but the key point is that it is facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds across the European Union that pay fo…
You are.
You are.
Well below the market rate.
I asked a question about a Government press release.
Thanks, Ceann Comhairle. This is an incredible, brazen display by the Taoiseach. It really is.
Three times now the Taoiseach has been asked effectively the same question. I am going to ask it again. It is not clear to me if the Taoiseach does not understand his Government's proposal, he is misleading the House about his Government's proposal or the press statement issued by the Minister, Deputy Browne's Department is inaccurate. The Taoiseach needs to clarify for us which it is, because not just once or twice …
It is what it says in the press statement. It states: "All landlords". What the Government is therefore saying to existing and new tenants - all of them - is they get the limited protection of the 2% or CPI if it is new, for six years. At six years it is a free for all. Landlords get to reset to market rate. There will be six 2% increases and then 40%, 30% or an unimaginable level that is simply not affordable. That …
It is. I will read it again. It does say that. As part of this master of the spin, it also says "Tenancies of unlimited duration to be enhanced by introduction of rolling-six year tenancies ...". That is some enhancement, Taoiseach. You are getting rid of tenancies of unlimited duration and going back to the old system of rolling six-year tenancies. What you are presenting is Orwellian. The logic of this is the Gover…
-----people who are trying to buy a house, people who are locked out and who are going to be locked out even further-----
-----are going to be on the streets-----
-----next Tuesday at 6 p.m. in front of the Dáil as part of-----
-----a major Raise the Roof mobilisation to stop this Government and its landlord agenda.
Yes.
The housing crisis is not new, Taoiseach.
It is not me suggesting it. The Government's own press statement refers to a right to reset. It is not just in a written press statement; it is also what the Minister, Deputy Browne, told the media. At the press conference earlier he said what happens is that at the end of the six years, the rate-setting piece - effectively the rent - could be put back to the market in line with what the press statement says.
Which is it?
So new tenancies are going to be every six years.
It is not what you said, and it is not what your-----
Deliberately? You are the one-----
Taoiseach, you have the press statement.