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

There are many aspects to the housing crisis and the failure of this Government to deal with it. The programme for Government puts a particular emphasis on affordable housing. The Rebuilding Ireland affordable home loan scheme, which commenced last February, is a mess. More evidence of the mess around it was provided by Brian O'Connell on the "Today with Seán O'Rourke" radio programme. We heard of numerous families who had been approved but who are now being told the funds may not exist. We know that a considerable amount of the funds have been drawn down. These funds would have been expected to have been drawn down in the timeline set out for the €200 million.

I have had multiple items of correspondence, which I have raised and will again today, from people being refused the loan for inexplicable reasons. One family was told that they earn too much and that the other reason they were not being given it was because it was not thought that they could repay the loan. It cannot be both. Is the real reason that the funds are running out? Is that why people are being refused and may not get loans even when they are approved?

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