Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Chambers Ireland is the latest business body to tell the Government that housing is the biggest challenge that faces enterprise this year. Social and affordable housing targets are woefully low and yet the Government has been unable to meet them in the past three years. Time and again, the Taoiseach responds to questions on the housing crisis as if it has suddenly sneaked up on him. There is never any recognition of his responsibility for this debacle as a Minister in successive Governments over the past decade. IBEC has called on the Government to set a more ambitious role for local authorities and approved housing bodies through the delivery of more social and cost-rental units and a broader affordable homes scheme with a target of 20,000 units annually before the end of the decade. Does the Taoiseach agree that it is time for a significant upwards revision of annual housing targets for the next eight years?

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