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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: It is important to set out that putting it into the Constitution is not going to deliver one more house. This Government has set out that housing is a priority. This is evidenced by the fact that almost one in three euro in our national development plan is going towards housing delivery. This is not even including the funding for grids and roads, which are all prioritised towards housing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: I thank the Deputy for her question and the clarification. The Government has scaled up affordable housing delivery rapidly across all tenures since 2022 and continues to accelerate housing supply. Cost rental is a key element of the Government's strategy to improve affordability in the rental sector and to provide secure, long-term homes for moderate income households above the income...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: I thank the Deputy. I know the Deputy never wants to hear good news or progress but just wants to-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: -----focus on the negatives.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: The Government consistently acknowledges there is a massive affordability issue in this country. That is why we have brought in significant affordable measures-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: -----which Sinn Féin opposes again and again. We have an affordability problem and a viability problem in this country. We are addressing both. I was delighted to be in Balbriggan only a few weeks ago turning the sod on 817 affordable-purchase, cost-rental-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: -----and social homes. They are real homes, there are shovels in the ground, and homes being built in Balbriggan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: I know the Deputy does not want to hear about that. She wants to pretend those houses do not exist, that we are not doing these things-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: ------with URDF funding and that we are not doing other projects in Balbriggan, but that is what we are doing. This happens every time I come in.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: I know it upsets the Deputy's social media plan when I start to say the positive things that are happening, so she likes to talk over me to ensure there is no possibility of anybody being able to hear anything I am saying that is positive. It is an ongoing tactic from the Opposition benches.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: It is really disingenuous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: My time is up but the reason I am still talking is the Deputy will not give me an opportunity to say anything.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: The Deputy really gave the game away when she talked about government. Sinn Féin is obsessed with getting into government instead of providing solutions. It has abandoned all attempts now in terms of providing solutions for housing. The public rejected its proposed solutions in the last general election.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: We hear very little about those proposals anymore because it does not want to talk to them-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: "A home you will never own" simply did not work with the people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: Here we are again. I am back on my feet, trying to give an answer and once again, the Deputy is trying to talk over me. Getting into government for government's sake is not going to work. The Deputy has to provide solutions. We are providing solutions. I turned the sod only a few weeks ago on 817 affordable, cost-rental and social homes and more homes will be delivered in Balbriggan...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

James Browne: The Department's budget package for 2026 sees some €11.275 billion allocated across my Department, Tailte Éireann and an Coimisiún Toghcháin. Housing capital investment has reached a record €9 billion. We have introduced a 29% increase for Uisce Éireann to advance water infrastructure and facilitate housing development. We have significantly increased our...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Oct 2025)

James Browne: The Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme (SHCEP) supports the delivery of social housing by providing financial support to local authorities for the leasing of houses and apartments. Details of state expenditure on the Social Housing Leasing Programme from 2015 up to the end of Q1 2025 can be found on my Department's website at the following link: ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (7 Oct 2025)

James Browne: The Government Legislation Programme for the Autumn 2025 Session was published on 17 September. It is available at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/publications/gover nment-legislation-programme-autumn-2025/ As set out in the Legislation Programme, my Department has four priority Bills for publication, namely:Residential Tenancies (Amendment)(No.2) Bill 2025,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Oct 2025)

James Browne: A total of 24 projects have progressed or are progressing under the LIHAF scheme. The enabling infrastructure has been completed on 16 projects and at the end Quarter 2 2025, €127m in Exchequer grant funding had been awarded under the scheme. With regard to housing delivery, the 24 LIHAF projects that have progressed or are progressing have committed to deliver circa 16,150 housing...