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

The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families and children. If the Government was buying houses instead of leasing them and getting a higher proportion, as well as building the social and affordable housing we need, we might see an impact. I have been asking for weeks now, and got agreement in principle, that there would be statements from the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, giving an update on Housing for All. There was a commitment that there would be four progress reports per year about Housing for All. They disappeared from the agenda. That perhaps suits the Government. Let us now point the finger at migrants but not talk about the Government's record on delivering social and affordable housing. When will we have the statements as promised, by the Minister, on Housing for All and addressing the housing and homelessness crisis in this country?

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