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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be happy when I do not have people crying in my clinic over this.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has no interest in a debate on housing.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the housing crisis which sees 110,000 families and individuals on the housing waiting list and ten new persons presenting to homeless services in Dublin each day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44772/13]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Minister of State that her social housing policy is a total shambles and a disgrace. Earlier she mentioned 4,000 new social housing units, mostly through leasing arrangements where we are subsidising private landlords. That does not even cover half of the increase in the numbers on the housing list, which has now reached 110,000 families and individuals - it had been 100,000...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I could go on through the list. I want to ask one simple question.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the Minister of State's figures, €30 million equates to 500 houses new houses.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just one second-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can we not multiply that-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- put €2 billion or €3 billion into building new social housing, save ourselves the rent allowance, house people on the housing list-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and put some building workers back to work?

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation is getting worse. I put a simple question to the Minister of State. According to her figures for the cost of building a new house - we were building 90,000 houses a year during the boom so she cannot say we cannot do it in a short time-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To build 100,000 council houses according-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To build 100,000 council houses would cost €6 billion. We would save €1 billion a year, according to the Minister of State's figures.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She said €30 million for 500 houses.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So 100,000 houses would cost €6 billion and we would save approximately €1 billion a year in rent allowance payments and in the extra rental revenue that would come back to the State. On that basis we could even get the money from the European Investment Bank because we would pay for those houses-----

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- over a minimum of a ten-year period and then we would be into surplus as well as solving the housing crisis and we would put building workers back to work. Why can she not do that?

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am using the Minister of State's figures.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State said 500 houses for €30 million.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine. Then maybe it will go to 100,000.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A 12-year housing list.