Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday the Central Bank forecast that the Government was set to miss its housing targets each year out to 2025. It expects that each year from now to 2025, the Government will fall over 12,000 homes short of its own target. The world and its dog knows the Government’s targets are woefully short of what is needed to meet demand. This is deeply concerning. The Government has missed its social and affordable targets since 2020. I am sure it will acknowledge that. If this abject failure continues, the housing crisis will deepen further, impacting housing need and the cost of housing as people look to rent and buy. The Minister, along with his party and Fine Gael, created this housing crisis. Our people cannot afford for it to worsen further. Does the Minister accept that the Government’s housing plan is failing and is actually designed to fail? Will he commit, as Sinn Féin has repeatedly called for, to the delivery of 20,000 public homes per year?

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