Dáil debates
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
11:40 am
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
It delivers enough money to take 5,000 adults and their children out of homelessness next year.
It provides for the addition of 10,000 houses to the social housing stock. It provides for an affordability scheme comprising 6,000 homes over three years, provided under shared equity. It provides for an expansion of the family hub programme in order that fewer families must spend time in hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation. For renters, it increases resources for the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, which is important in ensuring that the rent caps are enforced and that rogue landlords, where they exist, are pursued. The tenants' Bill, which of course is not a budgetary measure but is coming, will provide for a rent register providing transparency on rents in order that people will know what other people living the same area as them are paying and can, therefore, ensure they are not overcharged. That is what is in the budget for renters.
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