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- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----the availability of rental accommodation, as well as-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----the increase in homelessness-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----are of serious concern-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----to me and to this Government.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: That is why every action we take is to increase the supply of homes - social, private and affordable - and to prevent entries into and ensure exits from emergency accommodation.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: All of the data point to-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: All of the data point to a significant increase in supply. To go from delivery of just 20,000 new homes in 2021 to practically 30,000 in 2022 is significant by any yardstick. I am travelling all around the country on a weekly basis, I am meeting families-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----who are getting the keys of their homes. Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of opening 261 new homes in Limerick. That is 261 families and individuals who have the keys to their forever homes because of Housing for All and what this Government is doing. Last year, 10,263 families got new social homes. I met families who told me what it meant to them, and that is what matters to me,...
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----whether the Deputy wants to acknowledge it or not-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----because it simply does not-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It simply does not suit his own narrative or his agenda because he does not want to see-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: -----progress in housing.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy has voted against every measure on home ownership. He continues to oppose schemes right across the country.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: We are now able to start building at Oscar Traynor Road. The Deputy's party opposed that development for years and years and years. I commend the countermotion to the House.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — the Government is taking the challenges in the rental sector and the increase in the number of people accessing homeless supports in recent months very seriously and, through the implementation of Housing for All: A New Housing Plan for Ireland, the...
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Home permissions, completions and purchases, as well as first-time buyers and mortgage drawdowns, are all at record levels. There was an annual increase of 37.8% in the total number of new homes approved for planning permissions in quarter one of 2023 compared with quarter one of the previous year.
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He should try to behave himself for once. There were 3,059 commenced in May 2023, an increase of 11.4% over the same period. Since January, nearly 13,000 new homes have been commenced, which is the highest ever for this period. A total of 6,716 new homes were completed in the first three months of this year, a near 20% increase on quarter one last year....
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: The number of homes purchased by all buyer types has gone from a low of just 25,699 in 2011 to more than 52,600 last year. First-time buyers remain the largest segment, by volume, with more than 25,000 drawdowns in 2022 and many of them accessing the schemes the Government has brought forward. More home mortgages were approved for first-time buyers in May this year than in any other month...
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: Some 10,263 social homes were delivered in 2022, representing a 12% increase on 2021, the highest annual output of social homes in decades and the highest level of delivery of new-build social homes since-----
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Darragh O'Brien: It is a pity the Deputy was not here to ask questions last week and most of his colleagues were not here either. Please afford me the opportunity of responding on the Sinn Féin motion. A strong pipeline of social and affordable housing is now in place, with more than 19,000 new build social homes in the pipeline and during-----