Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When you look through all of the housing policy initiatives of this Government, what do they all do? Help to buy and shared equity schemes increase house prices. What does the Land Development Agency, LDA, do? Very little, because it was not given the powers actively to manage land. The so-called affordable housing programme is producing homes that are not affordable even under the criteria of the LDA or the cost rental equity loan.

This week the Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, echoing the Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, from 2019, told us we had turned a corner on housing. This is not true. We are stuck in a vicious cycle and the only way to break that cycle is for this motion to pass, this Government to fall, and a Government of change to be elected to drive a radical change in housing policy to meet people's housing needs. I commend the motion to the House.

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