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- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Just for the record-----
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Yes, but the Minister agreed with the committee to count the figures that way. As a point of information, 1,760 voids were put back into use during the last year. I will go into more detail later.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Opposition parties did not want us to count them. There was a desire on their part not to count them.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: It is hard to win with this.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Money allocated to them has not been spent.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Exactly.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the motion and to outline the facts of the situation. They are not lies. I listened to many speakers saying we come to the House every month to debate this. I mean no offence to Members, but I have not seen any new solutions emerging from the different motions that have been discussed. In fairness, Deputy Fitzmaurice gets down to the details...
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I did not interrupt anybody, and I did not come here for a row. I am referring to what Members have said about inaction, just talking and no delivery. That is just not true. The facts do not support Deputy Clare Daly. We accept that there is not a house for everybody. We accept the supply issues. We are not saying that the issue is solved in any shape or form. However, it is also...
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: That is what everybody is saying.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: A Cheann Comhairle, I did not interrupt the Deputy.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I have listened to what everybody said-----
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I will return to that shortly.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Will the Deputy let me speak?
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I will go through all of that if the Deputy will let me speak.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: It is all on the record.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I will go through every Member's query. I have no problem with that. Deputy Curran raised rapid build housing and I will return to that shortly. However, he also gave the impression that nothing has happened since the housing committee met here three years ago.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: I sat here and listened to what the Deputy said. Deputy Paul Murphy wants to hold a big march in a few weeks. That is fine. He should hold the march, but be honest with people. The last time there was a big march I listened to the message from the campaign, which was to deliver 10,000 social houses. That is what we are doing. Deputy Joan Collins nodded her head. She wants that, and it...
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: It is unfair to those providing services, including NGOs, local authorities and AHBs, for Members to give the impression that nothing is improving. It is not true. It has been repeatedly alleged that the Government only wishes to use private housing but that is not true either. A building programme is in place to increase the stock of social housing by 50,000 over the next three or four...
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Exactly.
- Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Damien English: Has the Opposition provided solutions to deliver houses as quickly as possible?