Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

Fridges have an energy label on them. The Minister of State should provide the same for housing. Why not provide grants for greenhousing solutions? Why not provide and foster the innovation that people want to provide? Instead we get a dumbing mediocrity when it comes to the Government's housing policy. While the Minister of State often boasts about the record number of completions, 70,000, 80,000 or maybe 90,000 next year, the proportion of local authority and affordable homes is at a record low and he must do something about this. He owes it to people who have been on housing waiting lists for many years.

I have one last plea. The Minister of State should put in place a joint housing list for all the Dublin local authorities. A bureaucracy exists that can be very difficult for people to overcome. They deserve the right to be considered for housing anywhere in the greater Dublin area. I would like the Minister of State to put that in place without delay.

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