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- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Come on, Minister, get your head out of the sand.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Government did not spend €4 billion in the last year on houses. Ask the Minister for Finance. He knows the Minister did not spend it.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister could not even spend his own capital budget three years in a row.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is in charge and he is making a conscious decision. He has been in charge for two and a half years and he is making it worse.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: It will be worse in April, May and June for him and his colleagues.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Homelessness went up.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is putting them into HAP-----
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State has his head in the sand, along with his mates.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thought that the senior Minister was bad but this is embarrassing.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: They do not work.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: A year.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is 20% over five years.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: I absolutely do.
- Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Existing tenants have seen a 20% increase in five years.
- Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to remember exactly why the ban on evictions was introduced last November. The Minister knows, given he brought a memo to Cabinet in October that told us there were 19 local authorities with no additional emergency accommodation capacity. It stated that if a ban was not effected, a significant number of single people, couples, parents of children and pensioners would end up...
- Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: The central cause of this crisis is the Minister and his policies. Deputy Barry was correct. The Minister will be remembered like some of his predecessors. Some of us are old enough to remember when Margaret Thatcher withdrew free milk from schools in Britain, giving rise to the campaign slogan, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher". The proposal by John Bruton to introduce VAT on...
- Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----of single people, adults and pensioners. Nothing in what I have heard from the Government today gives me any confidence that, month after month, we will not have rising homelessness figures.
- Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: We will be here to remind the Minister because the people he is evicting have come to us for support and for us to be their voice.
- Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)
Eoin Ó Broin: Until the Minister is out of office, they will not get the homes they desperately need and rightly deserve.