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

Darragh O'Brien: -----and this will disappoint him, is that not only-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy got away with this earlier on when he interrupted me consistently in the previous debate. I ask him to let me answer the question. He might not like-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy's arrogance knows no limits and I would check it if I were him. We have delivered 2,180 cost-rental homes from nothing, and it might disappoint him to hear that the pipeline of cost rental amounts to 7,700 homes. Scaling up the delivery of cost rental, a tenure that did not exist before, will have a very positive impact on the private rental market as well. I meet those people...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I think we have heard enough of the Deputy this evening, but carry on.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Affordability and the chance to own your own home are at the heart of this Government’s housing policy. Since 2021, over 8,500 housing supports have been delivered through the various measures we have established and are implementing with our delivery partners. Since the launch of Housing for All, close to 1,000 local authority affordable purchase homes at upfront affordable...

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...