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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: These schemes are working. We did launch Shanganagh Castle with enthusiasm because it is a wonderful development. I will invite the Deputy to visit Shanganagh Castle to see it because they are real homes, not an illusion of homes, for real people. I confidently predict every one of them will be sold. Households pay what they can afford, although the value of the home may be much higher....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is their motion.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: In fairness, you did not.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin's plan should really be called "A Home You Will Never Own".

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Eoin, "misleading the House" should not be a phrase coming out of your mouth.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Funnily enough, despite Sinn Féin's public pronouncements on the Government schemes, I regularly receive parliamentary questions from many of Deputy Ó Broin's colleagues in Sinn Féin asking for enhancements to the schemes they say they will scrap. What this Government has proved is that our plan, Housing for All, now in its third year of implementation, is working in bringing...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin might be doing this for a video clip.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt him once. I sat here and listened to him.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We have a plan-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----that is working on the ground.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin, you might show some respect-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am endeavouring to do so. I did not interrupt Deputy Ó Broin once. I know he gets a little bit hot-headed from time to time. The reality is his plan is full of holes. His promise of home ownership is an illusion. It is a convoluted illusion of leasehold affordable purchase that not one bank has said it would lend to. It is a scheme that would restrict to whom people could sell...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin picks figures out of the sky because he believes they will be popular. The reality is the public sees through his alternative plan, which is a home someone will never own, because that it what Sinn Féin is proposing.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I take it very seriously. I have respect for this House, unlike you or your party.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: - Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland, now in its third year of implementation, sets out a comprehensive suite of actions aimed at addressing affordability in the housing sector; - Housing for All and the Affordable Housing Act 2021, have put in place...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt once.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We know this is not correct. Deputy Ó Broin knows this is not correct. It is also very misleading. Deputy Ó Broin himself admits there are concerns to be addressed with his party's scheme. His proposed solutions to the concerns are simply quite bizarre. On 3 October, in response to questions from the Business Post on security risks and securitisation risks with the scheme,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Do they recognise the inherent unfairness in a cohort of purchasers having a State guarantee, a safety net that Sinn Féin is providing, if they were to default on their mortgage, while the majority of other mortgage holders would not? Are they aware of, or have they had conversations on, the state aid issues for such a guarantee scheme? To further complicate matters, Deputy Ó...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am also interested in what Deputy Ó Broin has to say to a couple earning the average wage on a joint income of €90,000. Deputy Ó Broin floundered on this the last time we debated it on RTÉ. His plan excludes such couples entirely from the Sinn Féin scheme. Through his plan, he is telling them Sinn Féin does not want to know about them. Does Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Interim Remediation Scheme for the funding of eligible emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes has been in place since December 2023. The Scheme, which is being administered by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis, is open to applications from apartment Owners’ Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing Agency’s website. In the period since...