Dáil debates

Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members]

 

8:00 pm

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move:

That Dáil Éireann:notes that there are over 1,600 children and up to 780 families in emergency accommodation;

accepts that families and children being placed in hotel rooms rather than proper accommodation is totally unacceptable;

further accepts that due to lack of action the number of people on the social housing list has been allowed to rise to 130,000;

agrees that there is a national housing crisis;

notes that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, have been given responsibility to build 20,000 houses on behalf of the State;

condemns the Government for only allocating 10 per cent of this stock for social housing as this falls way short of adequately dealing with the social housing crisis; and

calls on the Government to utilise the social dividend section of NAMA and to sign an order to direct them to provide 50 per cent of these 20,000 houses as social houses.

I propose to share time with Deputies Keaveney, Troy and McConalogue.

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