Dáil debates
Thursday, 7 December 2023
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
12:20 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Not even close. Only 35% of what the Government is planning to deliver, but will not deliver, is social and affordable. However, 70% to 80% of working families are priced out of the market by the prices the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland is saying will be delivered. It is not working. The Government has to dramatically increase - even in the planning and development Bill - the proportion of social and affordable housing that is being delivered. Because nobody can afford what is being delivered, the vulture funds buy it all, rent it at unaffordable prices or lease it back to the local authorities at extortionate costs.
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