We have a problem with amendment No. 13. We welcome the fact that the reference to market price, which was one of our amendments, has been removed. Then, however, it refers it on to the Affordable Housing Bill, in which there is no clear definition that ensures "affordable" will genuinely be affordable in terms of rent or affordable purchase based on people's income. Instead, it will be specified by the Minister and references to market price, market conditions, and indeed, local market conditions still continue to…

I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 6, to delete “housing so as to address deficiencies in the housing market” and substitute “public and affordable housing so as to address deficiencies in the housing supply”.

I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, line 6, after “market;” to insert the following: “to provide for a requirement that a proportion of the dwellings built be genuinely affordable in perpetuity to rent or buy and that the remainder remain public housing and that the proportion be decided by the relevant local authority in consultation with the communities;”.

I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, line 7, to delete “DAC” and substitute “public agency”.

I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, line 8, after “public” to insert “and relevant private”.

I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, line 9, after “of” to insert “such”.

I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, line 9, to delete “develop” and substitute “assemble”.

I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, line 10, to delete “, including with other persons or bodies”.

I move amendment No. 9: In page 7, lines 12 and 13, to delete “to enable the Agency to form subsidiaries for the purposes of carrying out its functions;”.

I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, line 14, after “Public” to insert “and Relevant Private”.

I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, line 14, after “for” to insert “public and affordable”.

I move amendment No. 12: In page 7, lines 14 to 19, to delete all words from and including ‘‘to” where it secondly occurs in line 14 down to and including “price” in line 19.

I move amendment No. 14: In page 8, line 4, to delete “Land Development Agency Act 2021” and substitute “Active Land Assembly and Management Agency Act 2021”. This group of amendments is also from Solidarity-People Before Profit.

All the amendments in the group are from Solidarity-People Before Profit. We discussed much of this subject matter in the previous, more general, discussion, which concerned the Title, but this is the group of amendments dealing with us setting out the alternative approach that we feel should have been pursued with the Land Development Agency. This is to make it a land assembly agency that could create a pipeline of land necessary in order to ensure the supply of public and affordable housing by local authorities p…

I agree that the debate on the Covid-19 vaccination programme should happen when it was scheduled to take place, particularly in view of the important announcements that have been made. I also object in the strongest possible terms to the guillotine being imposed on Report Stage of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. This legislation deals with the entire public land bank and, in the view of some of us, is essentially opening that land bank to private speculators and investors. Our group has tabled approximately…

Regarding the announcement on indoor dining, the idea that only people who are vaccinated will be allowed to avail of indoor dining and hospitality, but we will have young workers who are not vaccinated serving them, is absolutely nonsensical. The Government needs to address that issue. Under no circumstances should workers who are not vaccinated be told they must work in an environment we are told is unsafe for people who are not vaccinated and also told they cannot have a drink or a meal in the very same sorts of…

-----and what we can do to ramp up the vaccination programme for them.

It is welcome that the census is rescheduled but I must ask whether the Government pays a blind bit of notice to the critical data it gathers, which allows us to plan, particularly in the area of school provision. Judging from my constituency, the Department of Education and the Government do not use the data. I could name some of the patron school bodies and recite the numbers they have to deal with but none of them has a site. Sallynoggin Educate Together is on a temporary site that is too small and we have no id…

I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward this important motion relating to Poolbeg and the Irish Glass Bottle site. I am glad that the Government has decided not to oppose the motion. I pay tribute to the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group. I was an invited speaker at its launch meeting many years ago. I cannot remember how many years ago and that, in itself, tells a story because we still do not have any public and affordable housing on that site. The reason I was invited is that I face a similar situation…

I move amendment No.1: To insert the following after “until a satisfactory plan for the delivery of affordable homes is secured”: “— affordable shall be defined as a price that ensures the tenant or owner is not paying more than 25 per cent of their earnings on either mortgage or rent; and — where the NAMA lands are transferred to DCC, the homes on this portion of the land will all be social or affordable.”