Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann, considering that the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government has, during a period of unprecedented economic prosperity, failed to stabilise house prices and failed to provide for the housing needs of the people, calls for:

—the implementation of the report of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution in relation to building land, with a view to making housing affordable;

—the delivery of the 10,000 additional affordable houses which were to have been provided under Sustaining Progress and which have not even been started;

—a doubling of the production of social housing;

— the reversal of the cuts in rent allowance and the introduction of a housing benefit;

—the introduction of legislation to protect the consumer rights of home buyers; and

—the implementation of the integrated strategy on homelessness.

I wish to share time with Deputies Lynch and O'Sullivan.

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