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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. Affordable housing delivery for people to purchase and rent is an absolute priority of my mine and of this Government. We are making real progress there. As the Deputy knows, Housing for All sets out a range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing output across the board but also, really importantly, sets forward a roadmap and plan to deliver...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figure of 4,000 affordable housing supports is deeply disingenuous because it gives the impression that last year, 4,000 households moved into 4,000 affordable homes. Of course, the Minister knows that is not true because of that 4,000, 2,000 are approvals of the first home scheme, and only about 1,000 of those resulted in purchases-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Not correct.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----and none of those homes are affordable. When we actually look at the schemes the Minister directly controls, that is, the delivery of cost rental by approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency and affordable purchase homes by local authorities, it was about 1,500. That is the number the Minister delivered and increasingly, many of those are not affordable. I have to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The facts are borne out by looking at the first-time buyer activity. We have more than 500 first-time buyers per week now drawing down mortgages and buying their homes using the very supports we have brought forward, namely, the first home and help-to-buy schemes, which the Deputy opposes and would scrap. He has put nothing forward that would replace them, only some loose leasehold...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Talking about approvals of homes that in many cases will not be built for one, two or three years ignores the point. The Minister promised to deliver in 2022 just over 2,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent or buy. He delivered half that number. Last year, he promised approximately 3,500 affordable homes to rent or buy. He missed his target by 60%. We might look at the prices from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No, it is not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In Lusk, in the Minister's own constituency, the all-in cost for so-called affordable homes funded through his scheme is €565,000. My question is very simple. There are two schemes the Minister put in place and promised delivery of and on which he is failing. What are those two schemes going to deliver this year? What are the targets? What is the estimated delivery? Are they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: First, Deputy Ó Broin is again trying to play with the facts that the all-in cost, as he said, includes the State subvention.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin has not published its housing plan. The Deputy said he will effectively-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: They cost €500,000.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: A Chathaoirligh Gníomhaigh-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the all-in cost. The Minister just accepted it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This might be for the Deputy's Facebook or Twitter video. He might let me answer the question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is for the people who are looking for the affordable homes the Minister promised.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I project that we will deliver more than 6,000 affordable homes this year between all our various delivery streams. The Deputy wants to contend that is not progress from three years ago when there were zero, and then the number went up to 1,757 and to more than 4,00 last year. I am projecting that we will do more than 6,000 this year. They are 6,000-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Therefore, the Minister will meet his targets this year.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: There are 6,000 families and 6,000 homeowners-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: He will meet his targets this year is what the Minister is saying.