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- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: .... What is one of the biggest reasons for objections to planning permissions in rural areas? It is Green Party policies, which are ably supported by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Green Party has to be called out on that. We have instances in rural Ireland where we have serial objectors. It is bad enough to be a person objecting to one house. I am not criticising genuine...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: ...we could call him a small developer, but developers are necessary. We always had them and they were encouraged, but now there is bureaucracy with the Office of the Planning Regulator, the EPA and the Van Diemen's Land of An Bord Pleanála. An Bord Pleanála has been an utter scandal for the past ten years and perhaps much longer. The matters that have come to light now are...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...a waiting list. In addition, if they were on RAS after 2011, they came off the waiting list. There were no rights. Everybody was on various schemes with no security of tenure whatsoever. Simon Communities Ireland does its report every quarter, telling us that absolutely no house is available under RAS. The only game in town in Galway city is HAP. What am I doing as a representative?...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...they are sitting on while waiting until it suits in order that they can make enough money is disgraceful, and the Government will not do anything about it. These people sit on tens of thousands of vacant or derelict properties and huge amounts of zoned residential land and drip-feed them into the market as it suits them or, even worse, they leave them empty because they are appreciating...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: ...right and are being let down. We in opposition and in the Labour Party have tangible ideas of how to tackle these issues. We want to see a State housing construction company established through the Land Development Agency to increase the delivery of public homes to over 20,000 a year, social homes to 12,000 a year, and 10,000 truly affordable homes to either rent or buy. The...
- Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)
Dessie Ellis: ...should give local authorities the lead in building such housing. In fact, we need a State company dedicated solely to the building of these houses that would not be influenced by the private sector. Lands owned by local authorities such as those identified in my constituency around Finglas, Ballymun and Santry can be utilised for affordable building projects. The Government can...