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

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister explain why he is charging people purchasing homes under his so-called affordable purchase scheme more than the actual cost of delivering those homes? As he knows, he uses open market value rather than full or all-in development costs. This means that if people want to own their homes outright, they do not just have to pay the full cost that the local authority or Land...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course the Minister failed to answer the question. It could be that he does not understand the details of his scheme or it could be he does not want people to know how it works. Let me remind him. For one of the three-bed terraced units in Shanganagh Castle - a scheme he launched so enthusiastically very recently - the full cost if the purchaser wants to own the home outright is...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. That is absolutely not correct.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no proposal to abolish tenant purchase. The Minister is misleading the House.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House again.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is because I do not do it, Minister, unlike you.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It will deliver affordable homes at prices people can actually afford. What is dangerous about that?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Half a million euro for a so-called affordable home.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: How is bringing down new house prices dangerous? In what world?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is failing.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: A plan that is failing. The facts speak for themselves.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer all of those questions if the Minister stays until the end of the debate for the first time in five years.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer if the Minister stays until the end for once. Take your job seriously.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Stay until the end and listen to everybody, Minister, for the first time in five years.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, they will.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am confirming it for you again.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, absolutely.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If you stay to the end, I will be happy to-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: agrees that the Government's Affordable Purchase Scheme is not working, while house prices continue to spiral out of control with a 10.1 per cent increase in the last 12 months according to the Central Statistics Office; notes that: - no affordable purchase homes were delivered in 2020 or 2021; and - only 323 affordable purchase homes were delivered...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: A number of weeks ago, the Minister for housing stood in front of the Shanganagh Castle development in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and announced to the world that homes would be available for working people to purchase for €374,000. What the Minister forgot to tell people is that if they bought a house at that price, they would only own 70% of the home and the State would legally own...