There is a major crisis in respect of school places coming down the line again. I hear words but I do not see action to avert that crisis. In 24 hours last week, I was contacted by four different families all in a panic. I was told by Elliot's parents in Celbridge that they had applied for the six relevant schools in their area with special classes and had received rejections from all six. They are in a panic because…
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I move:
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 so that the provisions in that Act for tenant deposits to be sent to the Residential Tenancies Board are commenced within 90 days of the passing of this Act.
I am introducing this Bill to protect tenants' deposits today because it is one of the most common and damaging forms of theft - a type of…
I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
I welcome the recent reduction in speed limits on local rural roads. I also welcome the forthcoming reduction in speed limits on urban roads from 50 km/h to 20 km/h. The facts are absolutely undeniable that speed kills and reducing speed even by a small amount saves limbs and lives.
Research published by the Department of Transport shows there is "an extremely strong and fundamental relationship between speed and in…
There is something profoundly undemocratic about what the Government is planning to do on housing. We have just had an election campaign during which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael told us Housing for All was working and that the evidence for that was the 40,000 homes that were going to have been built last year. The Government was deliberately misleading people. It knew and had been told that the figure would be only 30,…
15,000 homeless.
Do you agree it is not good to meet them?
He did not say he did not say it.
It was after 7 October.
Israel began the full-scale ground invasion on 27 October. The Taoiseach visited in the middle of November. He participated in a propaganda visit when the genocide was fully under way. He is now misleading the House.
Correct the record, Taoiseach.
You misled the House. The Taoiseach claimed he visited when the war was not under way, but it was well under way.
It was under way.
The Taoiseach's propaganda visit took place when the genocide was happening. He misled the House.
The lecturers of the BIMM music college have been forced onto the picket lines. They face an incredible assault on their rights, with 53 workers facing redundancy. A small number of them will be re-employed on less than half the hourly wage they were on previously and the rest will be faced with the choice of getting bogus self-employment on zero-hour contracts. This is part of the so-called "Uberisation" of academic…
-----TU Dublin should tell BIMM to back off or else it will not be able to continue with this arrangement?
It is mostly funded by the State.
2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach his plans for the implementation of the programme for Government. [4512/25]
Normally, the Taoiseach reads the response first and then we speak.
The programme for Government refers to reforming the triple lock legislation. It was reported last Friday that a draft law to end the triple lock will shortly be brought to Cabinet. Will the Taoiseach provide some detail on this? In what way is the triple lock going to be ended or reformed? Back in 2013, the Taoiseach, who was not then Taoiseach, hit the nail on the head when he said that the triple lock was at the c…
You believed it in 2013.
No. It does not.
The Taoiseach is the last man standing from the Fianna Fáil Governments that blew up the property bubble and then saw the whole thing come crashing down and ordinary people paid the price for a decade or so. It seems the Taoiseach is committed to going back to the future. He is resurrecting the same policies that caused the 2008 financial crash. At the weekend, it was tax breaks for developers, whom the banking inqui…
Why did you not say this during the election?
The quickest, easiest and most immediate response to the housing crisis is to deal with the scourge of vacancy and dereliction. In almost every estate in Dublin South-West one will find vacant houses. These are perfectly good homes or they were at one stage. They could be used to house families. Instead, they are a blight on the community. We got figures recently that 14,500 of the more than 100,000 vacant properties…