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

A number of weeks ago, the Housing Commission the Taoiseach set up issued a damning report about the failure of Government policy to address the absolutely dire housing and homelessness crisis. We have been asking since then for a debate on that report. We were led to understand last week that such a debate would take place, yet it is not on the schedule for this week. Given the absolute anger and despair being expressed by hundreds of thousands of families affected by this housing crisis, particularly in the teeth of elections, it looks as if the Government does not want this debate in advance of the local elections because the report is so damning. That is outrageous if it is the case. There is room on the schedule later this week to have a discussion on that report. We got indications from the Government that we would be allowed to have that discussion, so the Government should allow for those statements this week, before the local elections take place.

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