Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Government’s Housing for All plan is inappropriately named. It estimates that 7,550 affordable houses will be built before 2026 using State-owned land. Not one single house will be built in Tipperary. We have an acute housing crisis in Tipperary, from Carrick-on-Suir right up to Moneygall. My office, like everyone else's, is inundated. The Rev. Fr. Michael Toomey was on the radio this morning. He has written to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. I ask the Taoiseach to ask the Minister to meet a deputation of Oireachtas Members for Tipperary because what is happening is unfair and unjust. The Government calls the plan Housing for All, but it is a shambles. Even all the emergency accommodation is full. People will not be entertained by the council until they are evicted, and then there is a crisis, every hour of every day. That is simply unbelievable in a rural county, but that is the way it is. The Government should rename the plan because it is certainly not Housing for All. That is an inappropriate name. It is an insult to the people who are begging for housing.

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