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have a habit of continuing interrupting when we try to respond to their points. I have no issue with a debate in the House, but I am making valid points. I have read her party's housing construction policy. In my view, it is not going

scepticism as to the timeline for the realisation of the proposals around that. I will return to that. I established a clearing house upon this Government entering office to bring the private sector in to talk to Departments and to hear the perspective of regulators in order that … clear and tangible pathway as to the journey we are on. We have made great progress on onshore but increasingly in the House and in public debate, we have mixed views about this. When I use the word "we", I mean society. Already, people want guidelines to restrict

Taoiseach said, the Kenova Report is a difficult read but it is an absolutely essential one for all of us in this House. Everyone must face up to the wrongs of the past honestly and squarely if we are to achieve lasting peace and reconciliation on this island … unlawful acts of the most serious kind or to act with impunity. I want to put this on the record to reassure the House. Stakeknife's personal role in the violence carried out by the Provisional IRA is shocking and grotesque but it should not obscure the wider

Today, this House is asked to reflect on the findings of Operation Kenova, findings that go to the heart of how the conflict on this island has been understood, explained and justified for decades. For too long, the story of that conflict was presented as one in which … cover-up at the highest levels of the British state, including actions carried out within this jurisdiction. That should alarm everyone in this House. Far from drawing a line under the past, these reports deepen the questions that confront us. Given these findings, the Irish Government must

íobartach le hinsint agus le cloisteáil fós, agus gur gá dúinn freagra cuimsitheach a thabhairt dóibh. Like colleagues on all sides of the House, I acknowledge the immense dignity and perseverance shown by the victims and families whose stories lie behind this report. They have carried unanswered questions … deeply regrettable that the full Denton report has not yet been published. Survivors and families have waited far too long. This House has on three occasions sought access for an independent international judicial figure to all original British files relating to the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I repeat

disappeared, files went missing and the investigation was closed within ten weeks. Motions have been passed a number of times in this House demanding the British Government make the necessary files on this available and it has refused to do so. Denise Mullen is a former Aontú councillor … from Dungannon. At the age of four, she stood at her house while her father was shot dead by the Glenanne gang and the east brigade of the Tyrone UVF. Her father bled out over hours while she was with him. The O'Dowd brothers live beside

given greater consideration. Distinct from this, we also brought forward amendments touching on other parts of the Bill following significant deliberations in both Houses. It is, therefore, incredibly disappointing that what we see returning from the Seanad is the Minister's acceptance of just one amendment, bringing explicit … Minister who is genuinely interested in hearing from the Opposition and good legislative practice, or give due respect to the function of these Houses in their totality

trying to solve what is a housing crisis driven by a supply crisis. What have we heard from the Opposition? Have we heard a single solution? The Deputies' only proposal - Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to misery - is to freeze the housing crisis into a permanent misery. That

What we have to do is provide housing solutions. We have to drive the supply of homes if we are going to solve the housing crisis in this country

Freudian slip from the Deputy there. We are driving on and addressing the housing crisis. We want to solve it in order that we can get people into the homes they need. That is why we are driving on with building social homes, affordable homes and private homes … compared with 2024. Our policies are working; we are going to drive supply and that is how we will solve the housing crisis, the rental crisis and the homelessness crisis. Simply putting the crisis that exists into a permanent freeze will not solve it. Peddling misery will

more serious manner than you have done in a decade. That is why none of us on this side of the House will make any apologies for highlighting the real-world impacts on real people of the Government's legislation. The Government can try to distract … hide a Government that continues to miss almost all of its targets. I look forward to debating the social and affordable housing output figures for 2025 when they are eventually released. I suspect the targets in that regard will have been missed as well. This is terrible legislation

rent pressure zones, that is for sure. It is that some people in the private rental sector move out because they get social housing; it is nowhere near enough, but some. Some people move out of the private rental sector because they manage to buy a house. Other

homeless HAP and the thresholds. If they get the working family payment, what might that mean? Would it drive them over the social housing income threshold and make their situation even worse? They asked if there was anything I could do, and so on. When you look … happen because it is wrong, and it can do something else to make sure that does not happen. It can provide secure, affordable housing for people like that couple and their child

December. I know some of the people. If they have kids, they try to go home or get into a friend's house so that their children can have Santa Claus. In January, they have to go back into the emergency accommodation. I am dealing with … evicted. I will ask the Minister a straight question, which I asked Cork City Council, namely, who is going to give them a house? They are willing to pay, but as for the tenant in situ scheme, earlier the Minister, Deputy Browne, said he was looking to provide

specific circumstances in the interest of public health during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Government could, on the request of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage make - after consultation with the Minister for Health, and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public … There is a strong pipeline of future developments, with over 5,150 additional affordable purchase homes approved for support from the affordable housing fund across 22 local authority areas. From budget 2026, cost-rental homes will be exempt from corporation tax, making projects more viable and ensuring

commitment that this Bill will not drive up rents? Everyone on this side of the Chamber and every expert who presented to the housing committee said it will but the Government is saying we are all wrong. Will they give a commitment that the Bill will not drive … asked direct, straight and hard questions. The Minister and the Ministers of State are telling us the Bill will help to solve the housing crisis and homelessness emergency and provide additional homes. We do not believe it will do so. We believe the result will be the opposite

years, to try and regularise the undocumented in America via legislation in Congress on the Hill. Long before President Trump entered the White House, this has been a challenge. Deputy Bacik and everybody else in the House knows that. We came very close a number of years

population of over 20,000 but those in rural communities who let granny flats or let rooms on a short-term basis in houses or sheds should not come under the residential tenancies planning provisions. I was dealing with two ladies in west Cork last year who were … doing Airbnb for decades, letting out approximately ten rooms in two houses. They heard of this new legislation and knew that if they had to get planning permission, assuming they could get it in the first place, it would cost tens of thousands of euro which would make

above 20,000 and we are trying to get the balance right between tourism and housing. It is important to note, there will be an obligation to register. The Bill is the short-term letting and tourism legislation. We published that, as the Deputy knows. We got Cabinet … already. A year or two ago, if, bar in the case of home sharing, someone wanted to change the status of a particular house to an Airbnb scenario, by law, as it currently stands, the person would need planning permission to do that

Donegal, we are dealing with our own humanitarian crisis relating to defective concrete blocks, which has affected thousands of private and public houses, commercial buildings, public buildings, schools and crèches. All of these places are falling apart and we have reached the point where we cannot provide housing

research the ESRI has done. This is the State's attempt to blame a small minority of refugees for things like the housing crisis. Recently, the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, stated it much more vocally and publicly than would have been the case heretofore when he made … comment to the effect that a significant number of people in emergency accommodation have no right to housing in this country. I would not call it a dog whistle, because it was fairly blatant. Asylum seekers generally are abhorrently treated. Four hundred refugees were told in December that

down with the companies involved. If the Minister or I were suspected of breaking the law, a Minister does not come to our house to discuss it; the appropriate powers hold us to account. We now need to ensure that we make a move. Sinn Féin is prepared … areas where we can work together and actually deliver a solution fairly quickly. That is why I commend this Bill to the House. I welcome that Government is not opposing it. I assume that means we will have unanimous support here. Let us take this to Committee Stage

victims are not denied justice due to the often slow discovery of online offences. Coco's Law, the 2020 Act brought through the House by my predecessor in Wexford, Brendan Howlin, working with the inspirational Jackie Fox, already criminalises the distribution of intimate images without consent and addresses … know, technology moves and evolves quickly and so must the protections that safeguard the rights of the people affected. We in this House must be committed to strengthening the law so that the creation of these images is treated with the seriousness it deserves. We simply have

further. We have seen the X offices in Paris raided by the French Government, which I welcome. As Deputy Cairns said in the House a couple of weeks ago, if we had a warehouse on Pearse Street alongside the X offices here which was producing CSAM and IBSA … This is one area which is hugely problematic, has rightly caused huge consternation in society and has provoked reactions from across this House, the media and society. This legislation is to be commended as it seeks to address a specific piece of it but even

analytical and transparent way. The tax strategy group is not a decision-making body - that is a matter for the Government and this House - and the papers produced by my Department are simply a list of options and issues to be considered in the budgetary process. What … cost modelling exercises, including proposals to amend the group B threshold parameters, as the Deputy and many others have raised in the House. There is a significant cost associated with further changes to the group thresholds. That is not necessarily a reason to make or not make them

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1066 of 18 March 2026, the grounds upon which he feels unable to provide the figure requested for the value of sponsorship received; and the criteria by which he deems this

Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding that was provided by his Department to carry out works at a location (details supplied) in order that it could provide accommodation for people fleeing the war in Ukraine

Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of funding requests his Department has received from Cavan County Council seeking funding approval to purchase additional fire appliances and or specialist equipment for Cavan Fire Services in 2025 and to-date

Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of funding requests his Department has received from Roscommon County Council seeking funding approval to purchase additional fire appliances and or specialist equipment for Roscommon Fire Services in 2025 and to-date

Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of funding requests his Department has received from Kerry County Council seeking funding approval to purchase additional fire appliances and or specialist equipment for Kerry Fire Services in 2025 and to-date

Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage of the 2025 capital budget allocation that was actually spent for the National Parks and Wildlife Services; if any unspent capital budget for 2025 was automatically included in the 2026 budget allocation, in tabular

Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department plans to introduce regulations surrounding the transparency of money paid to property management companies by residents who feel as though their money is not be administered correctly; and if he will make

Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the proposed relocation plan relating to Elm Park, Buncrana, County Donegal; the scope and objectives of this plan; if a final decision has been made in respect of the relocation; to provide

Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the Waterways Ireland Climate Action Plan 2030 and in particular the progress on Key Result 4.3 relating to the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and active travel options

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the affordable and purchase homes delivered in 2025, by delivery stream including, AHP local authority delivery, AHP turnkey, AHB cost rental direct delivery, AHB cost rental turnkey, LDA cost rental direct delivery

Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the implementation of the Lower Shannon Fish Passage Initiative; the stage implementation is at; if there is an implementation plan published and a timeframe for the implementation; and if he will

Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is considering a new phase of supports for existing cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme applicants, as per correspondence issued to applicants; the stage this consideration is at; when applicants will be informed

Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given to extending the mandatory retirement age to 62 to members of the retained fire service; if he can provide details of any analysis or costings that have been carried

Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made on each of the individual Programme for Government commitments assigned to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/26

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received, approved and refused under the domestic waste water treatment system grant scheme, in each local authority, in each of the past ten years, by local authority, in tabular form. [28698/26

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of funding approved and amount paid under the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme in each local authority, in each of the past ten years, by local authority, in tabular form. [28699/26

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average grant amount approved under the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme in each local authority, in each of the past ten years, by local authority, in tabular form. [28700/26

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of inspections of domestic wastewater treatment systems carried out in each local authority; and the number of those inspections which identified systems requiring repair, upgrade or replacement, in each of the past

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of inspectors engaged in the inspection of domestic wastewater treatment systems in each local authority, in each of the past ten years; and to specify whether these figures are whole-time equivalent

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of inspections, the grant applications arising, the number of approvals, and the total funding approved under the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme in each local authority, under by the following categories, national

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the basis on which domestic wastewater treatment systems are selected for inspection; the criteria applied; whether these are set nationally or locally; and whether a written guidance document, circular or protocol governs this process

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the process and criteria by which areas are designated under the national inspection plan, prioritised areas for action and high-status objective catchment areas; the bodies involved in those decisions; and whether these designations have

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason householders cannot nominate or request their domestic wastewater treatment system for inspection for the purposes of accessing the domestic waste water treatment system grant scheme; whether consideration has been given to introducing

Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has assessed the extent of unmet need under the domestic wastewater treatment system grant scheme arising from the current inspection-led model; whether estimates exist of defective systems not captured

Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will investigate a case (details supplied) where a landlord has been housing a Ukrainian couple since November 2024 under the accommodation and recognition payment, but has never received any payment; and if he will make a statement