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Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Next is Deputy Daly, who is sharing time with Deputy Ó Murchú.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Pa Daly: Probably 60% of the representations that we receive in our office have to do with housing. This week alone, I dealt with a woman from west Kerry who could not afford housing in Dingle because much of it costs approximately €350,000, a couple from Kerry whose rent had doubled over the past four years, a woman who had been on the housing list for 16 years and was living in a small room...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I wish to discuss the affordable housing scheme in County Louth, specifically Cois Farraige in Blackrock just outside Dundalk. Time was extended to allow more people to apply. Initially, there were just 26 applications, only five of which met the criteria. Council officials said that the difficulty lay with the criteria. Not for the first time, I will put it on the record that I do not...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: On behalf of the Regional Group, I am grateful for the opportunity to make some brief comments on the Housing for All strategy. As the Minister of State knows, we on this side of the House are always fair. From a political point of view, Housing for All is the only strategy that exists, so we are critiquing a strategy in isolation. I would like it if there were two or three alternatives...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am afraid the words of the previous speaker are a simplistic resolution to a serious and extensive housing problem that has bedevilled Members of this House for many years. Unfortunately, it was not possible to do the things that needed to be done at the time. First of all, we did not have money. It is important when one is trying to solve a housing problem to have money and to be able...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is very easy to come in here and talk about a leaked report. Many of us are talking about a leaked report and can only comment on what is in the public domain, whether on the RTÉ website or in some of the local papers. I think a few facts need to be stated at the outset. One that strikes me the most is the EU comparison. With the development and increase in our stock here, we are...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Boyd Barrett is sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I asked for this debate on the housing emergency weeks ago. I have been given four and a half minutes and the Minister has just left the Chamber. It sums up my frustration in trying to get across to the Government what an absolutely disastrous situation we are facing. The human misery that people are suffering because of this housing crisis never fails to shock me. Anybody who has...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Mick Barry: The English premiership ended on Sunday with Manchester City in top place, Arsenal in second and Liverpool in third. Who tops the Dáil Éireann landlord table? As is well known, this Dáil is stuffed to the gills with landlords. Whereas one in 20 of the general population is a landlord, in this place the figure is one in five and the number is rising. Some 28 TDs registered...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: My apologies to Deputies O'Connor and Bruton. I should have called them both in the last slot. I now call Deputy James O'Connor.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: Do not worry. All is forgiven. I raise the issue of the potential to add units to our annual new housing stock through modular accommodation. Modular housing was looked at as an emergency response initially to the Ukrainian crisis, and there has been much debate on it in the migration space. I am concerned that it seems this is not being viewed by the Department of housing as a potential...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is encouraging to see 52,500 new starts up to the month of April and 30,000 mortgage approvals in the past 12 months to first-time buyers. In my own constituency we have a strong pipeline on State land of 2,500 social homes and 3,500 affordable homes. However, I want to underline a problem generally in Dublin. The Minister needs to examine carefully the situation emerging because, last...

Visit of Western Australia Delegation (21 May 2024)

Visit of Western Australia Delegation (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before proceeding to our next contributor, Deputy Munster, I ask Members to join me in extending a very warm céad míle fáilte to the Honourable Michelle Roberts MLA, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the vast province of Western Australia. Speaker Roberts is the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the Assembly and, believe it or not, she is also its...

Visit of Western Australia Delegation (21 May 2024)

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Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Munster.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Imelda Munster: Coverage today by RTÉ of leaked details of the report of the Housing Commission laid bare the absolute disaster that is this Government's housing policy and the Minister himself. The report was compiled by leading experts and practitioners in the State and in it they are clearing saying the plan has failed. Calling for a "radical strategic reset" of housing policy is another way of...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise two issues in respect of this matter with the Minister. I welcomed the Minister to County Leitrim yesterday. We had a good morning there and several housing projects were opened in Drumshanbo and Ballinamore. It was welcome and excellent to see it happen. We need to see more of it throughout the country. That is the real problem. I want to make a point that is often...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Chris Andrews is sharing time with Deputy David Cullinane.