On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 43 of 1,056 decisive votes (12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF | Sinn Féin | 1,669 | 2020-04-23 – 2026-09-24 |
Membership spells on record: SF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · SF 2024-11-29–present
The question is whether what is happening is fair. I do not think it is. At this stage, after all these years, the Government cannot stand over what is being done. It is wrong.
First, I want to make a comment personally in relation to everyone who works in the health service, the unbelievable staff, whether it is doctors and nurses, healthcare workers, or cleaners, canteen staff and maintenance staff. I myself was in a hospital yesterday for another appointment. I am regularly there because I have had a number of health issues over the years. It is inspiring to look at the people at the coalface providing the care. We can never underestimate and we should always mention the unbelievable w…
Will the Minister update the Dáil on whether outstanding derelict sites levies will be collected by Revenue and whether additional funding will be provided to local authorities for the collection of the register?
I can safely say that the Minister has just given a big spiel there, the same as the previous Minister did last year and the year before that. Nothing the Minister has outlined today will tackle dereliction. He talks about CPO activations. Local authorities will not take out CPOs because they are too complicated. They do not have the staffing, the resources or the money. I have looked at the Minister's 105- or 107-page plan. There is a paragraph on CPOs to tackle dereliction, but no funding and no resources. It is …
The Minister has said he is giving power to the Revenue Commissioners, but when will they start collecting levies? He said he is going to keep local authorities involved. The local authorities have been keeping derelict site registers since 1990. That is 35 years. Why are we not putting a levy on today? Why are we letting land hoarders and speculators get away with destroying communities and towns by leaving spots derelict? I had a meeting tonight with Sinn Féin members in Tipperary. They outlined to me the blight …
No, it was 2016.
The Minister can rub it in but-----
It is hard lines when you will not give us an answer, but not to give your own man an answer? Jesus. I know less now than before you started to talk.
Will the Minister update the Dáil on the funding allocated to local authorities to bring the thousands of vacant properties back into public use for social housing, and will he make a statement on the matter?
Can I give the Minister of State a bit of advice and provide him with a solution? I sincerely want the Government to take this on board. He has just said the voids programme will be open in the new year. Why is it not open today? Why is the voids programme not open 365 days a year so that when a house comes back, the local authority can fix it up and allocate it out? Opening it just once or twice a year does not make sense. I am trying to be constructive but the Government always criticises us and says there is not…
I am not sure if the Minister of State knows this, but he should. If someone is not telling him this, he should get into the Department tomorrow and ask the question. He talks about preventative maintenance. At the current rate of preventative maintenance, it will take 78 years to do the stock survey of all local authority housing. That is the figure the Government provided to me - 78 years - and he comes in here to answer the question saying this is what the Government has planned. There are people who are living …
I got the figures from the Department.
These are the facts.
A lady contacted me today. She finished work in Cork University Hospital last Friday evening and was waiting in town for the 203 bus. She stood there for an hour before the bus turned up. Two buses were on the app. They never turned up. By the time the bus turned up, over 100 people were waiting to get on at the bus stop. She said trying to get on the bus was like a stampede. Imagine what it is like after working a long day in a hospital and having to struggle to get a bus home. She also said that she walks 5 km ev…
I would advise the Minister of State to go back to the Department now and find out whoever wrote that speech for him because that speech was not worth the paper it was written on. I got all the same excuses and the same promises last year. Here we are now and the Minister of State is being rolled in here to read out the same old claptrap again while the people of Cork cannot get a bus. The Minister of State is talking about a bus to Kinsale. There are 150,000 people living in Cork and he is talking about a bus to K…
It is your job. It is your job to make sure people can get to work in the morning. I was contacted by a woman. I am asking you now, as Minister of State-----
-----to go to my Facebook page with the Department of Transport and look at the messages that were left there. A girl was waiting an hour and a half to get a bus home from college on her own.
Is it right that in the pitch black of night girls and women are being left on their own?
It is not good enough and that response was shocking.
Will you meet with Bus Éireann?