Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The facts speak for themselves. The number of people in homeless accommodation has increased by 91% in the past two years and 34% in the past year since this Government came to office. How the Minister can possibly claim it is working is beyond me.

There is the issue of the disposal of sites like those on Oscar Traynor Road, Shanganagh in Shankill or the NAMA sites in Cherrywood and so on. If these are given to private developers, how will they be affordable? They will not. The Government has not defined affordable housing. Public housing is affordable but sites that previously would have seen 100% public housing will now only have one third with public housing, with the rest controlled by the private sector. They will control the rents or property prices, which will not be affordable.

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