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money and it is holding up the delivery of 250 homes. When I raised this with the Minister by way of parliamentary question, I was told Limerick City and County Council has advised the Minister that a funding requirement has arisen in relation to enabling infrastructure at Mungret … Council and is part of the wider Mungret framework area. The framework aims to unlock substantial lands in public and private ownership and allow construction of residential development supported by community and employment use. The LDA has also acquired a significant land bank throughout the city, particularly

others when he is guilty of the very same thing. I chuckle every time hear somebody in Fianna Fáil say it is the party of home ownership. Home ownership has collapsed under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the last decade and a half. In fact … originally intended to do. Let us look at the facts. One of the big changes the Government has made is the application of allowing landlords with existing rental properties to reset the rent to market rent when a tenant moves out voluntarily or through a fault eviction

manner that is respectful. The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, said that we must ensure this can be passed. Members of different parties said to look at the last referendum and said that we did not sell it right. I think what happened with the last two referendums … allow for that. Suddenly, it did not matter anymore. It is gone. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might be able to help us find out where the importance attached to the Unified Patent Court referendum has gone. We were told we had to change the Constitution to allow

thank Deputy O'Gorman for bringing forward this motion. It is certainly a motion that my party and I are very much looking forward to supporting. One of the starkest differences between Ireland and other European countries is our poor public transport system. Under successive Governments, one abandoned … Sundays to allow young people to socialise in town without having to worry about getting a bus home or without driving people back into their cars. As part of BusConnects, nearly €9 million has been spent on contactless fares. On the basis of replies to parliamentary questions, this

emergency legislation to explicitly force the CBI to stop facilitating the sale of Israel Bonds. I thank all the parties that have worked together on this cross-party motion. I especially thank the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the activists in it who have been working for months … mean these words when they say them. I know that. However, allowing the continued sale of Israeli bonds in Europe and allowing the continued facilitation of this by the Irish Central Bank is standing idly by. Allowing munitions destined for Israel through Irish airspace that are literally being

take questions of pay out of the public procurement issue where employers compete on quality and standards rather than pay. Through replies to parliamentary questions, doing some additional research and uncovering the facts a number of years ago, it was found that a considerable number of contractors … being set up by my party colleague then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin. It was called Benefacts. It drove a huge amount of change and transparency in the not-for-profit sector. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform allowed this organisation to grow from