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really addressing the key obstacles to housing and will not deliver housing at an affordable level. Many people in my city and county of Cork and across the country are doing everything right. They are doing everything they can. They are saving, working, trying to improve their education … issue of the R624. The Minister was in the docklands in Cork recently. There is huge potential there. We need to get it right. Housing there needs to be affordable. It cannot only be apartments for people on high incomes. A community needs to be built there

issue in housing is supply. Everything the Government is doing is and will be focused on increasing the supply of houses right across the board. This includes an increased number of social houses. In the last four years, a record 48,000 social houses have been provided

course, the solution to all of this is to drive the provision of housing right through the different sectors - social, affordable and private. I welcome the new planning framework which will hopefully drive and allow local authorities to redraw their county development plans and deliver that housing

sights set on war as the key thing we are guaranteeing for future generations. Young people across the EU have social rights, housing and climate as their top priorities. Our leadership seems to have lost interest in solving those issues in Europe. The pressure is so overwhelming that … high standards for the things we buy and the things we make. It is not anticompetitive to say we cannot tolerate human rights abuses and slavery in our supply chains. That is what was guaranteed at European level in the corporate sustainability and due diligence directive, which

were campaigning in the general election, so many parent whose children are in Australia would tell me to make sure we get affordable housing right in this Government

highlight the importance of the electricity grid, both from an energy security and from a housing point of view. We quite rightly talk in this House about the emergency that is housing - there is no doubt about that - but the key enabler to moving forward on that emergency … consider this in due course in the months ahead. We are determined to get that right and make sure there is bang for buck in terms of that investment leading to extra houses. I will keep the Deputy updated as that progresses

Deputy is right to highlight housing, which is the biggest domestic challenge we face. There are many young people, both here in Ireland and Irish young people abroad, who want to see and need to see more progress made on housing. I would point out some progress

which is the broader point the Deputy is getting at, that it is not going to be enough. There are towns and villages right across Ireland, rural and urban, that desperately need the water infrastructure and wastewater infrastructure as well. We have been very clear as a Government … move forward on that investment. We are also bringing Irish Water to the table in the new housing activation office, which we are going to get right, because water infrastructure is a key enabler of housing to keep young people in constituencies like the Deputy

City Council's homeless prevention measures. This year, the Government provided €20 million. From that, €5.5 million has already been spent on 135 houses purchased last year and a further €12.7 million is needed to complete the purchase of 38 homes by the end of last year … asked that the tenant in situ scheme be saved. The scheme works. It is one of the few things the Government did right. Tenants want houses to be purchased, landlords are willing to sell and local authorities want to purchase them. The only problem is that the Government

thank colleagues right across the House for their contributions, not just during the discussion this afternoon on making Ireland's education system a world-class system and making sure every child can reach his or her full potential. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue

ours, with an economy that is doing well, is a 14-year-old outside Leinster House campaigning not just for her own family members but to highlight what is going on right around the country. It is not right. The Minister or some senior official should be outside … family's problem but to the overall issues. I believe in the goodwill of the Minister. I know everyone in this House wants to do the right thing by those who are disabled, marginalised or in this system looking for an assessment of need for their child

housing delivery is at risk because of electricity supply shortages. Data centres are soaking up electricity put in place for future housing and this problem goes right back to the failure of the Government to build capacity in the grid and to modernise the network to meet … members are going around in circles on this issue. Their failure to get the basic rights, to future proof infrastructure development is coming home to roost and it is impacting hardest on housing delivery. A few weeks ago the Tánaiste made a TikTok video. In it he said

know the cohort of people who are above the social housing income limits but not in a position to acquire a house in their own right. We need to support those individuals and couples but unfortunately, at present, there is a gap in the supports that are available

With others in this House, and I am quite certain people right across the entire country, we share the horror of what we have been seeing going on in Gaza and across the Middle East. The denial of humanitarian aid to citizens is, as the Taoiseach rightly said … that we, along with Spain and Norway recognised, and rightly so, Palestine as a state, was the right thing to do. It stands to this House and to the late Brian Lenihan senior who, as early as the 1970s and in the 1980s, as the then Minister

genocide, murder, starvation, mass deportation, mass displacement and ethnic cleansing are not in our name. Tonight, everybody in this House will have a chance to be on the right side of history. I urge every Member of the House, in both opposition and government, to be on that

often the Government gets things right when it comes to housing, but in the case of the tenant in situ scheme it was working. What does the Government do when something is working in housing? It moves the goalposts. South Dublin County Council has seen a significant

Deputy is misleading the House. That is not right

anyone in this country who is not horrified and haunted by the scenes Deputy Sherlock rightly mentioned in relation to young children and babies. There is no one in this House who wishes to deliver well-meaning statements. There is a whole array of people, including hundreds upon … they are doing this country, a small country, extraordinarily proud. I thank them for their work. It is right that we take every opportunity we can in this House to consider what further actions we can take to help press for peace and to end the onslaught

question was whether the Government will investigate these issues, even if the Minister does not want to answer them right now. We do not need a housing tsar to contact Fingal County Council, have a meeting, discuss its needs and then organise the payment for whatever needs

cottages in my home area. Just along the Grand Canal, as morning commuters travelled to work and school, a terrace of houses, ironically, owned by and right adjacent to the Construction Industry Federation headquarters, collapsed. It was embarrassing for the CIF, for sure, but it was lucky that … stark example of the scourge of vacancy and dereliction. Vacancy blights more than just streetscapes because whenever I raise it in this House, as I have many times, I see vacant stares on the Government side. Nobody in government seems to know the scale of the problem

sleeves and fixing what is broken, and what is easily fixable right in front of us. There are small legislative changes that would have the biggest ripple effects in finally solving the housing crisis that my generation and every generation of buyers is facing. The motion from Sinn … negotiations, was the progression of private wires legislation. If we are serious about accelerating housing delivery and building the infrastructure of the future, then we need to remove the obstacles that are right in front of us. One of the most urgent and fixable issues with regard

care in school buildings and campuses owned by the State, the plan to change the guidelines to ensure we have the right properties built in new housing estates because it does not seem to be happening, and encouraging State-backed investment to deliver facilities as the initial cost

mandate local authorities to find suitable sites in areas - towns and villages - to give that choice in terms of public housing to allow people who wish to right-size to do so. I am taking a holistic approach. Local authorities are involved through the CCMA with

press "go" on crucial water and energy projects and provide extra support and funding for the Land Development Agency. The Deputy is right that if we do not do that early on, we will not see the benefit of it for the people of this country later … infrastructure such as water, energy and transport infrastructure because they are obviously enablers of housing. We have to ramp up housing too. We have to get it right. That is why I am encouraged by the work being done by the Minister, Deputy Chambers, with the establishment

voices in this House and the thousands of the voices around the world condemning the Israeli Government on what is legitimately described as a calculated, ethnically-cleansing slaughter of the Palestinian people. Israel is demolishing their homelands and denying them their true birth rights. Before the eyes … calling it what it actually is, namely, a full scale invasion by anyone’s moral compass. The renowned Palestinian humanitarian rights activist, Mahmoud Nawaja, recently visited Leinster House. He said that complicity is the enemy of his people and that boycott and divestment are the two non-violent

Complaint no 110/2014 and its decision in 2017 finding the Irish State failed to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure the right to housing of an adequate standard for many families living in local authority housing across the country and that Ireland was in violation of Article … Revised Social Charter, which protects the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection, including the provision of family housing. [25293/25

Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how his Department assesses the impact of housing policies on children, specifically regarding the use of a children’s rights framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26543/25

Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a statement by an international election observation NGO (details supplied) that encountered difficulties observing the last general election calling for greater clarification of the rights of election observers