James Browne

It is extraordinary that as I try to speak for a few minutes-----

-----everybody has tried to shout me down.

-----because they do not want to hear facts. It does not suit the social media narrative pop-up to get the 30 seconds. They do not want to engage with the facts-----

-----or the figures.

That is the problem.

Look at your own housing policy-----

Look at your own housing policy.

I am very conscious of every one of those children-----

-----and I will do absolutely everything to end child homelessness in this country-----

-----and I am going to get those children out of homelessness-----

-----and what will do that are decisive decisions that I am making-----

-----and not the rhetoric-----

----- from the likes of yourselves over there who do not want to engage in facts-----

-----and who want to-----

-----promise people rainbows-----

-----and do not actually want to provide practical solutions.

I move-----

That is more efficient.

I am not smirking or smiling.

The Deputy has enough to say without making stuff up.

We are making radical decisions to get people out of box rooms, to get viability and to get properties built across this country. We know we have a crisis. I am treating it as an emergency. If we do not take radical measures and do so quickly, we will not get the apartments in Dublin city and across this country. That is why we are bringing forward these measures to address the issue of viability …

I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I have listened to about 40 minutes of hyperbole and lots of one-liners for social media-----

-----being put forward and no solutions, with the exception, in fairness, of Deputy Hearne. As I have stated before, the Department of housing has asked the Department of Finance to look at a Livret A-type scheme and I have read the Deputy's proposals. There are challenges in this regard. It is not something that can be stepped up immediately but it is something we are looking at seriously. We m…

I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €5,438,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2025, for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary General to the President, for certain other expenses of the President's Establis…

I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 4th July, 2025.