Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

The €100 million for vacant social housing acquisitions for families who are homeless has existed every year since 2020. In fact, this year the Government cut the funding for that scheme from last year. The €400 million equity fund has been in place since 2023. Yes, it is going to be extended but it is not new. The only thing that is new is the Tánaiste refusing to tell us and the public how many new-build social, cost-rental and affordable homes the Government will deliver each year and how it will make them actually affordable. The Government failed in 2016 and 2021 and it is failing again today.

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