Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We have a humanitarian crisis in Donegal and the west of Ireland. Families are living in homes that are crumbling around them. They are in dangerous homes this winter. However, one would not know it in this Government because not only is the Minister not here, he has two Ministers of State in his Department, but not a single one bothered to show up to listen to appeals from three democratically elected representatives of the people here tonight. We are united together to make the case for families in the west of Ireland living in crumbling homes. They cannot find temporary accommodation to move into. They are stuck in a logjam in a scheme whereby they cannot get access to funding, even if they could get temporary accommodation. I have asked the Minister to task the Housing Agency and local authorities in Donegal, Mayo, Clare and Limerick with assisting families in finding temporary accommodation and consider modular housing. No action has been taken. There is no show tonight. It is absolutely shameful.

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