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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me turn to Fianna Fáil. One of the great mysteries of the Thirty-second Dáil is Fianna Fáil housing policy. On this, I agree with the Government. It is almost as if it has become the fourth secret of Fatima. Deputy Darragh O'Brien's predecessor in the role kept his cards so close to his chest that many of his own party members did not even know what Fianna Fáil...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The jury is out at this point on whether there will be any actual substance. On the basis of this motion it does not seem to be the case. It has nine demands, none of which has any specifics. There are no targets or costings and the idea that setting up an agency, which would take at least a year to do, is any quicker than what the Government has proposed is absolutely absurd. It...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----I took the time to table what it actually delivered on-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What it actually-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What Fianna Fáil actually did-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions. Let us look at Fianna Fáil's record. Over those 14 years, it delivered on average 5,500 real social houses a year. That is less than the current Government is delivering. During that same period of time, the number of subsidised private rental tenancies for social housing actually increased. They increased beyond recognition. By the end of the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What I would like to hear from Deputy O'Brien, whether it is today, later on in the debate or between now and budget time, is what increasing capital investment he would like to see in budget 2019-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and what specific targets and specific interventions. Sinn Féin will not be supporting the motion. We have tabled an alternative set of proposals which are based on what we have done in the past in the costed delivery of social and affordable housing. The measures are very clear. Our view is there needs to be a doubling of capital investment by the State in the delivery of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not mind the interruptions.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: What we also need is for the Government to immediately introduce the affordable scheme it has been talking about. We are happy to work with it to ensure it has the right design. It needs to deliver homes, not at €320,000, but for families between €35,000 and €75,000 a year at genuinely affordable prices. That is somewhere between €170,000 and €280,000....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do our best.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy interrupted me, but I did not mind.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: We can take it.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the stress.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroom local authority new build apartments on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (16 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroomed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [21568/18]

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute the following: “— at least, double the capital investment in the public housing provision for Budget 2019, to dramatically increase the delivery of social and affordable homes on public land and in mixed-income and mixed-tenure estates; — amend Part V of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the complaints made to media organisations, voluntary sector organisations or other organisations or persons regarding unfavourable or critical comment or coverage since he was appointed in tabular form. [21812/18]