Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Surely the Minister is frustrated. When he meets managers, and I know he was in Fingal recently, he will be asked whether there are steps he can take in regard to the rigmarole of tendering procedures. For example, the Dublin City Council chief executive's report for November refers to two major sites in my constituency, at Oscar Traynor Road and at Belmayne. All these sites seem to be in a desperate, turgid, agonisingly slow pipeline. We have been told about pipeline after pipeline. The Minister is saying the same thing down to 2021. People cannot live in a pipeline. We need an output of houses coming on stream but it is simply not happening. Yesterday, The Irish Timessaid the Minister's housing policy is failing. What has happened with rents is a recipe for disaster because the Minister is not prepared to introduce a rent freeze. There is real suffering here. I know the Minister is aware of it but he needs a sense of urgency. He needs to come in here and introduce some emergency powers. There is no other way.

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