On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 1,054 of 1,062 decisive votes (4 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| FF | Fianna Fáil | 3,415 | 2020-03-26 – 2026-10-01 |
Membership spells on record: FF 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · FF 2011-03-04–2011-04-25 · FF 2011-05-25–2016-04-24 · FF 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FF 2024-11-29–present
-----focusing on exiting people from homelessness, for which I have already given figures. We are already doing that. We will continue to do so during the course of this year. We are now seeing thousands of social homes and, more important, thousands of people getting their permanent, secure, social homes because of the measures-----
-----this Government is taking.
Do not try that again with me, Deputy.
Anyway, I will not get involved in this childish back and forth with Deputy Ó Broin.
Stop it. He is being ridiculous.
I do not think we can apportion blame for the conduct of questions this morning.
Can I respond to that?
I do answer questions regularly. Do not misrepresent it.
If he is feeling let down, I will make sure I answer the Deputy next time.
I reject completely the charge that we have stuck our heads in the sand. Let us deal with the issue itself, however. Deputy Doherty is aware that in June of last year, I commenced the enhanced scheme through the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022. I remind him that he and his party voted against that enhanced scheme, which would have left residents with a cap of €247,000 on grants instead of €420,000, and would not have included an additional rental property because th…
Deputy Doherty knows very well that his constituency colleague - the Minister, Deputy McConalogue - was on European business that evening. The Minister engages with me on a daily basis and advocates in a positive and constructive way for changes to the scheme. He actually made an input into the new scheme, unlike what Deputy Doherty did. I will remind the Deputy that I wrote to him, his party and his housing spokesperson, who is coming into the Chamber, asking for their input into the enhanced scheme. I did not rec…
-----proposed, which is for one property and one additional property. I know there was also much discussion around holiday homes and otherwise that evening. I want to make sure that the Deputy did not commit to it that evening either. The reality of it is that it is our job to make this scheme work. It is working for households. It needs to improve-----
As I said-----
I am sorry-----
Excuse me for a second. I have said every scheme evolves and this scheme-----
-----will be reviewed after the 12 months.
We have upped the cap from €247,000 to €420,000. Sinn Féin opposed that. Let us be straight about that.
We have a number of staged payments through this scheme. What I was saying was that every scheme evolves, and we have evolved this scheme as it moves through on implementation.
The figures show we have 1,970 applications to the new scheme. I have given the Deputy the figures with regard to homes under remediation. I want to see those figures increase. The proposal from the banks about 0% interest finance is with the Department of Finance. By the way, what has also been sought by the banks is a State guarantee on those loans. There can be ways to expedite the initial payments and the staged payments and we will absolutely look at that.
Sorry, we will absolutely-----