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

The Taoiseach did not answer the question. Is there more house building? Yes. Is there a bit more social housing? Yes. However, the Housing Commission has said we need to double the Government's targets. I know damn well that the LDA and the HFA are not included in the €5 billion figure, but that total figure was meant to deliver 33,000 houses, including approximately 16,000 social and affordable ones. If we are to do what the Housing Commission has said, we have to double the housing delivered by all sources. Private developers will do what they will do - or not do, as the case may be - but we have to deliver social and affordable housing to address the needs of those in emergency accommodation and those who have been on housing waiting lists for decades and to address the problem of working people being unable to afford astronomical house prices. The Government has not provided the money that can do that, based even on its previous investment in Housing for All. The Government needs to double that investment, which is what we and others have been saying for years and has now been confirmed by the Housing Commission. I do not agree with everything it has said-----

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