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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Deputy McAuliffe for raising this very important matter many of us have raised for a number of years. The social housing passport is the solution to this issue. It has been promised for a decade. The then Minister, Deputy Kelly, had it in his Social Housing 2020 plan published in 2014, and his successor, Deputy Coveney, had it in his Rebuilding Ireland 2016. It is in the current...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fire Safety (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not necessarily a bad thing

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What - rising house prices, rising homelessness, rising rents? No thank you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. That is just fiction.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fiction. Simply not true.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is again misleading the House. It is becoming a trend for him.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We never opposed it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy is misleading the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very disappointing. We never opposed the schemes. We would never mislead the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is also not true. Some honesty would be welcome.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some honesty from Government backbenchers would be helpful.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have, several hundred thousand euro more than the Minister's €30 million.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Self-praise is no praise.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true and the Minister knows it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government's ability to rewrite history is remarkable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing; and when he intends to bring a memo to Cabinet on the issue of the referendum on the right to housing. [49145/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand the Minister has received the final copy of the report from the Housing Commission on the proposed referendum to insert the right to housing in the Constitution. Will the Minister confirm to the House that it is the recommendation of the Housing Commission to hold such a referendum and that it will provide appropriate wording? When will the Minister publish the report? Most...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I join the Minister in commending the Housing Commission on its work on this. All the members of the joint committee are keen to see the report. While the Oireachtas joint committee will have an important role to play, I hope the Minister's intention is not to refer the report of the Housing Commission to our committee to get our advice back to the Government. It would be much better if...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I am aware there is the possibility of a minority report. This is very healthy and I welcome it. Concern has been expressed by some that there have been attempts to politically influence the work of the Housing Commission, not from the Minister or the Department but from the Taoiseach's office. There has also been some very concerning reports about possible...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures the Minister of State is putting in the public domain are factually incorrect. The report on the Department's website indicates that it did not deliver 1,750 affordable homes last year because, in fact, 750 of those were under the first home scheme. They were only approvals. The actual number of drawdowns was 137. The Government set a target last year of 2,000 genuinely...