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

I ask that the Taoiseach allow for statements, particularly on the issue of housing affordability. I was told by my colleague, Councillor Melisa Halpin, that there was a management report in Dún Laoghaire yesterday showing that zero cost-rental or affordable houses were delivered last year. In Cherrywood, the biggest residential development in the country, houses are being sold at between €600,000 and €800,000 and, unbelievably, we still do not know whether we are getting any affordable housing. Apparently, there is a row going on with the developers over the delivery of affordable housing, which we were supposed to get for the big public investment that went into that development, that is, the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. We still do not know how many affordable homes there will be, if any, and whether they will actually be affordable. Rents there are being charged at €2,500 to €3,000 per month and house prices, as I said, are in excess of €600,000.

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