It is called Tathony House in Dublin 8.

Households.

Letters have gone to both.

To return to what the Taoiseach said about Palestine and his uncritical commitment to the so-called two-state solution, the entire history of the State of Israel has been 70 years of relentless ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinian people. The two-state solution is a mirage and a ploy promoted by Israel and the United States, behind which they continue the relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing, colonisation of Palestinian territory and the permanent displacement of about 9 million Palestinians around t…

The Taoiseach should stop misleading the Dáil.

There is a lot of stuff to deal with in the Finance Bill. It is a big document. We will no doubt tease through a lot of it in more detail on Committee Stage. It is a telling fact that, faced with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and a shocking, disastrous, catastrophic – you just run out of adjectives to describe how bad the housing crisis is – housing crisis, the ESRI and Social Justice Ireland were before the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, of which I am a member, and they stated unequivocally that if we …

Earlier this week, I warned that the Government's eviction ban Bill might not protect people with notice-to-quit termination dates before its passage. Those concerns were dismissed. The Bill was published earlier and, sadly, it is very clear I was right. The Bill states explicitly that only those with termination dates that fall after its passage will receive protection against eviction. That means that anybody who is overholding on a termination notice, as large numbers of those facing eviction are, through no fau…

I suggest the Minister pass them back now.

Months of Opposition pressure, public anger and protest yesterday dragged the Government kicking and screaming into bringing in a temporary eviction ban. According to the Government's interesting figures yesterday, as welcome as the belated ban is it still means that 2,273 people will face eviction after the ban ends, which means that the level of homelessness is likely to be up to 13,000 to 14,000 people. Of course, we all know that, in any event, those figures are an understatement. Evictions and homelessness are…

Yes.

What?

According to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's figures, if it meets, or slightly exceeds, the target for social and affordable housing in my area there will be more people on the housing list in four years' time than there are now. That is how inadequate the policy is. We need additional measures beyond what the Government has done to date. On the issue of buying properties, are rent supplements included in the HAP and RAS purchases? We need clarity on that. People who are over the threshold because they have…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to ban evictions for the duration of the current housing emergency. Incidentally, this is the third Bill that People Before Profit has introduced in an effort to ban evictions where people would end up homeless through no fault of their own. The first of these was introduced in 2018, another was introduced in 2020 and we sent this into Bills Office a couple of weeks ago. It was due to be debated in the Dáil…

I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

I hope the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss will look very closely at the manner in which our marine resources and offshore marine areas have been grabbed for so-called relevant projects in offshore industrial wind. The developers have chosen the sites, which are often very sensitive sites that arguably or definitely should have been designated as marine protected areas, something that the Government has failed to do. I read this morning that hundreds of records released to Coastal Concern Alliance, a citize…

I will send the Taoiseach the material.

I propose that NESC and, indeed, the Government urgently look into the question of the nationalisation of our entire energy sector. I want to demonstrate one example to show the Taoiseach the problems we face. That example is the bills over the course of a year of one woman on a district heating system in an area in Dun Laoghaire. In the bill from January to March, the tariff is 0.8 cent per kWh; in the next bill, it is 21 cent; in the next, it is 38 cent; and in the next, it is 49 cent per kWh. These are multiples…

Not on district heating.

It is just one instance.

Our ability as Deputies to function in these buildings is crucially dependent on the ushers and service officers. They are the first in and the last out, but, in general, they are pretty poorly paid. I raised with the Taoiseach a while ago the issue of the divisors for calculating overtime for ushers still being based on the old Croke Park hours. Essentially, this deprives the ushers and service officers of additional overtime payments. Equally, the service officers for some time have been looking for allowances fo…