Rory Hearne
speaker
352 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
Rory Hearne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Of the people, of older people, of workers, that's what needs to come first here.
Well well that's you know, again, that's a particular issue of you know, planning in in a particular area.
I'm not quite sure exactly what the specifics are to that.
But I think the point is that there is a need and there should be, you know, a choice for that person, that couple to be able to write size.
And if they're in a rural area, you would ideally have, you know, a situation in villages, in towns where there was housing being built.
for o elder people that they could write size to.
And of course, in particularly in small villages, in towns, there is, you know, land, there is space, and we know there's huge issues of derelict sites, derelict buildings that could be done by councils and would provide, you know, small little retiree, you know, estates in a in a small village that would bring life to it.
And also particularly for elder people, they need to be close to services.
And you know, so th so I think there are real solutions that could be done if the government did develop
a stream of affordable housing specifically for elderly people and there's no reason why it couldn't be done in rural areas as well.
Well, Clare, I said that before we even knew about these rents.
And I said it because we have reached the highest level of evictions in this country since the famine.
7,000 households were evicted from the private rental sector in the first quarter of this year.
We've record rents, record homelessness.
In my own constituency, from Ballymun to Artane, people are just...
they're at the end of their tether in terms of you've got multiple households living in houses, overcrowding,
We're knocking on doors in the last while for the by-elections, literally people in tears breaking down, saying their children were leaving because they just saw no future in this country.
People in tears breaking down.
I had one woman yesterday breaking down, crying because she's got cancer, she's in her 60s, she's being evicted.
And she said, how can I go into emergency accommodation with a colostomy bag?
Showing 41–60 of 352 · page 3 of 18
← Previous
Next →