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Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We have put forward many solutions.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That is not true.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: They are the Government's figures. It is a scale of ambition.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We still are.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We do.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is the Government's figures

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I said it.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Exactly.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, the Taoiseach has engaged in political theatrics and performative anger. He spent more time lambasting the Labour Party than he did setting out what the Government has achieved on housing, yet he is accusing us in opposition of politicising housing. That sums up the problem with the Government. Housing is political. In choosing to lift the eviction ban in three days' time,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----and it, too, is the fault of Government. If the Taoiseach loses the confidence of the House today, that is the fault of the Government. The fault lies at its door. We have given the Government an opportunity to right its wrong. The Labour Party and other Opposition parties have offered constructive proposals to continue the extension of the ban. For example, we have proposed in...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has acknowledged the immense shortfall in housing currently. In previous years, this country has delivered 60,000 new builds a year.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is perfectly achievable if the will is there. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, rightly points-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----to the achievements of the State in addressing the Covid pandemic. That is the scale of ambition we need now on the housing catastrophe.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We need 50,000 new builds and 50,000 refurbishments and retrofits a year.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That is the scale of ambition we need. The Government Deputies may laugh and scoff but it is based on the Government's own figures.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Housing Agency and the Housing Commission state that is what is required. Instead of that, the Government has shown no ambition and we have been left with record homelessness figures. More than 11,700 people, including more than 3,400 children, each one with an individual story of hardship, are already in homelessness and more are now poised on this cliff edge. An elderly man in his...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach acknowledged that a home is a basic human right but his Government has failed to vindicate that right. He has presided over a chronic failure in housing policy, and for that reason we have no confidence in his Government and urge all colleagues in the House to support us in voting against the Government today.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That is not true.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I express our strong support for this Bill and commend Deputy Ó Broin and his colleagues on bringing it forward. It is just the most recent of many attempts by Opposition parties and individuals at a sensible and compassionate approach to the growing housing crisis. It is an attempt by us, across the Opposition benches, to offer Government a constructive...