Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

10:30 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That would give us a fuller picture. There may also be others who need to come in.

I will respond to the other issues that were raised by Deputy Daly. I disagree with the Deputy on Beaumont. Human beings can object and that is their right and it is fine, but at times I find it absolutely incredible that public representatives of all hue and cry can, for political reasons, shout out about social housing requirements, or, indeed, private housing, which creates more stock, facilitates everything, creates competition and ensures we have more supply, and then go along on the other side and, for many reasons which I would not agree with, object to the same ones. I find it incredible and, let us call a spade a spade, in many cases it is hypocrisy. I am not saying in every case that it is so. I could list off a whole pile of these throughout the country, not just in Dublin, where that is the case. There is very little social housing in Beaumont. I agree with the Deputy on social mix and the requirements. I accept that and it is the way we should plan for the future.

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