Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government indicates that the Government supports the introduction of cost-rental housing, which is a critical element in tackling the most acute form of housing crisis that we have, namely, that in the rental sector. It brings down the cost of market rents and provides housing for all our people. The Minister is refusing outright to consider that at the O'Devaney Gardens development. He has overseen absolutely nothing happening at St. Michael's Estate in Inchicore, which was meant to be the first flagship project to show how this will work. When and where, and under what conditions, would Fine Gael ever consider rolling out cost-rental housing as a way of tackling the housing crisis in this city? The party is acting ideologically about this by refusing to allow it in O'Devaney Gardens and by sticking the St. Michael's Estate plans into bureaucratic glue.

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