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

Gemma is on her second RAS tenancy and will be evicted in August. How many more housing solutions will she have? All of those are counted as housing solutions. We have double counting. The Minister's proposal up to 2021 is to have 65,000 HAP tenancies, all private sector, 5,000 RAS and approximately 23,000 leasing solutions, none of them secure. They will make a lot of money for the landlords and IRES REIT, which is making a fortune.

None of them will be secure and they would cost about €1 billion a year by 2021, even if the Minister's plans succeed. They are not secure public housing, or social housing or anything of the kind.

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