Barry Heneghan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I welcome the Minister said that. I have met developers in north Dublin and across the country and they told me that the Housing Finance Agency was meeting just once a month. Completed buildings are sitting empty in the middle of a housing crisis, yet there does not seem to be a sense of urgency in the Department. Housing is not the Minister's Department, but as Minister for Finance, will he be increasing the number of times the agency meets in order to show people that we are serious about tackling this crisis and show investors that Ireland can be trusted?

In Dublin Bay North, I regularly hear from first-time buyers who are doing their best to secure a home close to work. However, many new builds in the area now fall out of the existing eligibility cap, making this scheme inaccessible to those it was designed to support. These people are not high earners or looking for luxury properties. They are ordinary people being priced out by rising market values. Will there be a threshold change to the scheme?

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