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wealth to reduce the burden on ordinary workers and families in delivering high-quality infrastructure and public services that are so badly needed right across our State. Despite the family home being turned into a financial asset by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments, the family home … right - and transformed it into an asset and made it out with winners and losers. Its failed housing policy has pushed up prices higher and higher right across the State. That has not been to the benefit of ordinary workers who just want a home to live

aged over 85 will increase by more than 140%. The Government is committed to increasing housing available to older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence and to supporting right-sizing on a voluntary basis. The Programme for Government 2025 - Securing Ireland's Future, recognising … diverse. Policy responses will need to address housing choice and deliver solutions in both public and private housing as well as support those who choose to voluntarily right-size. We want to provide choice. If people wish to purchase a home more suitable to their needs, we will

included also. These are clear provisions preserving the parties’ right to regulate for public policy purposes. That means the right of the Irish Government and this House to take measures to achieve legitimate public policy objectives, for example, environmental protections, consumer rights or food safety. I cannot … oversight and provides that every order made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade under subsection (5) must be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either

highly educated, works full time and contributes meaningfully to our society. However, despite doing everything right, studying, working and paying taxes, she has recently been removed from the social housing list in Laois because her income exceeds the threshold. On paper, she earns above the limit, which … unavoidable disability-related expenditure? We rightly speak about supporting independent living. We ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities but independence is impossible without housing. Housing policy must recognise disability creates structural barriers that income figures alone cannot capture. There must be flexibility

counties in which need is acute? The Taoiseach knows that we in County Laois have a quota of houses to build over the next seven years, and rightly so. In Portlaoise alone, that number is 5,000 houses. I ask the Taoiseach to come up with some plan

significant reason but because of the population targets. It comes at a time when there is a huge housing need in Ballina and right across Mayo. It also comes at a time when Hollister has announced an €80 million investment, which would bring significant jobs to the area … this regard. I want the Minister to issue a section 29 notification, which is allowable in the planning Act, to revise the housing targets and allow this development to take place. It is hard to believe that in a housing crisis, we have built into the system

move out of their parents' house to rent without forking out more than half their wages to a landlord. There is no commitment to a rent freeze or a ban on eviction and very little in the way of strengthening renters' rights, such as implementing model tenancy agreements … Labour Party have been clear that only the Government has deep enough pockets to underwrite the level of housing the country needs. On workers' rights, it is clear from the half page in the programme for Government that this is a coalition of cosy crony capitalism. There

more suggestions I will bring forward in more detail at a later stage. The first is increased penalties for housing not occupied including the right of a local authority to make a compulsory purchase order faster than the current derelict sites process. Allied to this are incentives … homes in the city centre for three years from now. It would make the area safer and more vibrant. People on housing lists should also be allowed to move to new or refurbished accommodation in areas that need the population in rural towns and villages without losing their

number of points in respect of each of the proposals raised in the motion, which might warrant further consideration by the House. In relation to voting rights, it should be noted that to extend the franchise at presidential elections to our citizens resident in Northern Ireland would require … Report on the Convention on the Constitution that Irish citizens resident outside the State, including citizens resident in Northern Ireland, should have the right to vote at a presidential election and that a referendum would be held to seek to amend the Constitution to give effect to this

this House and I ask that no one doubt the bona fides of people on this side of the House in terms of wanting to get this right. There are diverse views and what Deputy Rice said earlier may be right, there may be a significant view that … There will be engagement and the terms of reference will have to come back to the House for the statutory inquiry to be established. Let us all work to get this right. People have different views, but I think the Remy Farrell report is an important piece

parents are not in the Public Gallery and have not, from what I understand, requested any motion to be brought in this House but have requested a multidisciplinary statutory inquiry. I sit on the the Opposition benches and I argue with the Government on many matters … Harvey went through. Only through the statutory inquiry, through getting it right and through fixing it and having a commitment left, right and centre in this House will we achieve something for that family and for the memory of that child. We have dragged that child's name

duty to campaign. They have to campaign for recognition. They have to lobby politicians to bring their pleas to this House urging Government to do the right thing. In many ways, last year was a sea-change. I hope it will mark a turning point in how this

about the left or the right; it is about right and wrong. Independent Ireland stands for straight-talking common sense. Every cent wasted by the Government is stolen from essential services such as health, housing, rural transport and support for carers, farmers and fishermen. We were founded … stuff. It will never happen and they know it now. The people of Dunmanway are rightly angered. They cannot build one house because there is no money for a wastewater treatment plant, but at the same time there is €300 million for a metro in Dublin with

statements and blusters. We in the Labour Party will not throw Ukrainian people under the bus for a headline. Indeed, our housing spokesperson, Deputy Conor Sheehan, rightly called out the Government this month for the huge lack of clarity it gave the Ukrainian people living in Ireland over … commitment to change entitlements. Without a real plan, the Government risks causing mass homelessness for people who we have rightly supported to this point and still claim to support. The Government should show us it supports them, rather than simply telling us it does. The attack yesterday

more affected places in Gneevgullia, namely from Knocknaseed to Banard and from Coom over to Banard, where five and seven affected houses, respectively, cannot get a connection because the cost of the group scheme is too prohibitive. There are also high areas up in Castleisland where the pressure … Will the Minister of State, Deputy O’Sullivan, consider very seriously doing something for these people? Water is a basic human right. We can remember when houses were without water for four, five or six days a few weeks ago, which was terrible, but can you imagine being

fully respect the right of people to protest but surely it is possible in this House for us to get agreement on basic rights and wrongs in terms of what should and should not happen

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

welcome this opportunity, particularly as it is the first time I have taken part in a housing debate in the new Dáil with the Minister present. It is important that we get our points across to him. I was also outside at the protest. I am looking forward … filled. One thing I will never forgive the Government for is the oxygen it is giving to the far right by refusing to tackle the housing crisis. In the diverse communities I represent, many people are living in fear because of the hate and division being stoked

have any means-testing on carers. This is a really positive step in the right direction and it has been welcomed by people right around the country, particularly in my constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny. One massive positive in the budget on the services side was the investment … infrastructure side. Some €12.2 billion has been set aside for water and wastewater infrastructure. That is vital to improving the housing situation. There are blockages right around the country. In my constituency, towns and villages cannot grow because the infrastructure is not there. They are completely strangled. While

member of the Dublin Housing Action Committee. That was a group of people who came together to fight for the rights of people to decent and secure housing. He has said to me a few times that he did not think he would have to be back

report from a commission whose membership comprised academic experts, economists and business professionals, all of whom are experts on the housing sector in Ireland in their own right. What is of great significance is that the commission did not only look at the housing policies and strategies

morning and late at night, to build or buy these homes and they have a constitutional right to determine how long they want to rent their house out for to tenants. Tenants and landlords need each other - one as much as the other. For the most part … people would not be looking to build a house. They have their own houses built long ago. They were just asking for planning permission on equal terms so their septic tanks would be right, or they would have access to the national road or whatever road they

doubt each policy from each Government has intensified the crisis as it has failed to recognise - deliberately so - that housing is a basic human right. Each Government has dealt with it like an asset and allowed the market to provide. When it did not provide, governments brought … very well and the 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

coffers. I am very seriously concerned because while nursing home staff and management are doing everything they can to make sure everything is right, it is impossible to do that if the budget is tightened beyond belief. That is the situation here and the Government have let things … Goleen. They are absolutely thrilled. They have all the services they need at their door. The medical centre is right beside them. We opened 12 of these houses recently. This is a fantastic service and we need to spend more time looking at that. The future is bleak

good reason. I fully accept that budgets are about choices and we will have rigorous debates in this House about whether our choices are right. I contend – the Deputy will have a different view – that the choices we made this year were about trying to boost economic resilience