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given us a chance to reform planning laws urgently, limit irrelevant and vexatious objections, fast-track water and sewerage infrastructure and basically stop the blame game. Everybody is pointing the finger but nothing is getting done. We would prioritise housing projects that have been stuck in limbo

issue of geo-blocking last year and highlighted how unfair it was when RTÉ stopped broadcasts of its news bulletins in the North of Ireland, including news from the 2024 Olympic Games. Despite RTÉ News resuming broadcasting in the North, it was simply not good enough that RTÉ

whole life to training and preparing to excel in his or her sport, is about to do Ireland proud at the Olympic Games or to line out for the county i bPáirc an Chrócaigh for an all-Ireland final. Imagine turning on RTÉ to see the news … Olympic medals for Ireland and the Sam Maguire to boot, proving that RTÉ could have done more in the first instance. Ach níor stop sé sin RTÉ. Lean sé ar aghaidh ag scaradh amach na Sé Chontae go rialta. Le déanaí, ní raibh fáil ag daoine

over. We need common sense above all else. An focal scoir. Many small, ordinary landlords tell me they are out of the game. What we will be doing with this legislation taking away so many houses beforehand. The magic thing might happen afterwards, or it might not work … something to build houses and allow the people who can build their own houses to build them. They are being nobbled and stopped

provide, governments brought in every possible scheme to support the market, the HAP scheme being absolutely the worst, which became the only game in town. It is really important. Today I heard an interview with a Mr. O'Driscoll on the new infrastructure taskforce and I was singularly … misquoting and misusing of figures. We also absolutely made local authorities non-existent in relation to the provision of housing. We stopped building housing in Galway in 2009. We never built a single other house until about 2020. An integral part of the solution is public housing

used the number of words we use here in the Dáil, I am sure we could build quite an amount of housing. To stop all the talk, the Government commissioned a Housing Commission report. It reported last May, over a year ago, and had 83 recommendations. What jumped … what it should be, involving a short term arrangement, and build local authority housing. However, we cannot do that because of the blame game, with the local authority saying it does not have enough money and the Department saying it has loads of money. Despite what is said

this from the start. I went to Limerick last October to launch it during Mental Health Week. We often use the word "game-changer" in the Dáil but this is one of the ones that has really made a significant difference. I visited Limerick a couple of weeks … making of an application, as the second reference is not required. Amendment No. 45 is a technical amendment to insert a full stop at the end of the sentence as the following sentence is being deleted in amendment No. 46. Amendment No. 46 deletes subsection