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

Before the summer recess, I repeatedly asked the Taoiseach to facilitate a debate on the housing and homelessness crisis, particularly the review, or lack of a review, of the income thresholds for social housing, which means that thousands of families are being thrown off housing lists and denied housing assistance support. Over the last few days, there has been a drip-feed of reports that five counties will see increases in thresholds but the vast majority of the country will not. That means that tens of thousands of people in need of housing support and of social housing will be denied it. Week by week, more people will be thrown off those lists. I ask, at the very least, for the Minister to come in to give us that review, its details, and a report on Housing for All one year into the strategy.

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