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

-----but it does not answer the question. The Housing For All targets were for 33,000 houses a year. The Government does not want to debate what the Housing Commission has said, although it promised weeks ago that it would debate it. There is reason it does not want to debate it before the end of term. Including the deficit of 250,000 houses and future demand, the Housing Commission states that we need 60,000 houses a year. That is almost a doubling of current housing output. The commission also states that a very large part of this has to be social and affordable housing. If the social and affordable housing provided in 2024 was 9,300, then to get up to the level the Housing Commission is proposing we would need to pretty much double this social and affordable housing output. Last year's budget for housing was €5.1 billion. How do we double social and affordable housing output and general housing output with a fraction of what was invested last year? Yes, a wealth tax would allow us to fund it in a way that would not overheat the economy.

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