Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Tyrrelstown Residents

10:30 am

Ms Funke Tobun:

A couple of months ago, Ms Gillian Murphy and I were invited to make a presentation to the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. We asked him what he could do. He told us that the Government was in talks with this developer to acquire that unit. Since then, however, we have not heard anything. We know that the Government could purchase this unit to keep every one of us there. In this regard, we are appealing to the new Minister with responsibility for housing. We welcome the idea that the Government has established the Committee on Housing and Homelessness, as well as appointing a new Minister with responsibility for housing. We want them to start off where the previous Minister stopped, to push the developer and to acquire these units. We have nowhere to go.

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