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Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Chris Andrews: Housing for All - as far as residents in Ringsend and Irishtown are concerned, there is only housing for the very wealthy and the vulture funds. The vast majority of homes on the Irish Glass Bottle site will not be for working families from Pearse Street and Ringsend. A deal was done with the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group seven years ago for social and affordable homes but there...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

David Cullinane: There are a number of areas in housing where the Minister has delivered, which should be recognised on the floor of the Dáil. First is rising rents - well done. Every year, month on month, year on year, rents have increased. In my own constituency of Waterford, rents have increased 6.5% on last year. That was up on the year before and the year before that. Well done. You delivered...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to talk about the human impact of the failures in housing. A family were in touch with me recently who are going to be evicted on 2 June. They will be evicted into homelessness. They have been looking for a property that would accept their HAP payment and simply cannot get that. A second family were in touch with me in similar circumstances. They have been evicted into...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Murnane O'Connor is down as sharing time but she is on her own for the moment.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Okay, that is fine. Thank you. I thank the Minister for coming to Carlow last week. Carlow is one of many rural towns and counties where I always say that while we always need more housing, we are doing very well. It is always important we recognise the work that has been done. We have seen it in the past four years of the Government. More houses have been built than in the previous...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. There is no doubt of his commitment to this area. He has secured the largest ever annual housing budget. This proves his commitment and that of the Government to tackling housing. As he said, we have the highest number of local authority houses built since 1975 and the highest number of completions in almost two decades. We have introduced...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What the Housing Commission report states is that we do not need more of the same. While the Minister and the Government continue with the back-slapping, I want to explain why their housing plan is not working in Mayo. Last year, less than half of the target for newly built social and affordable housing in Mayo was delivered. That has devastating consequences for the county. A woman with...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate Housing for All. When it comes to housing as a public good, we in the Labour Party believe in three pillars for a housing system that works for all. The first is social and affordable housing. The second is security of tenure for renters. The third is a more ambitious home-building programme. For us, the marker of the Government's Housing for All...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This week.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This week. Apologies. He might as well launch it today. Let us be very clear: if RTÉ had not leaked it today, the Minister would not be publishing this week. How do we know? It is because he got a report on the right to housing from the Housing Commission last August and buried it. It was nowhere near as devastating as this one. I suspect that the Minister was hoping he could sit...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I challenge the Minister to publish it tomorrow. He should put it in the public domain tomorrow and then provide Government time next week for us to have a proper debate on it. Let us examine the Minister's plan. He says his targets are being met; however, if the targets are deliberately designed to be so low, ignoring the deficit that has existed, it is hardly surprising he is meeting...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a perfect storm in housing, particularly in north Donegal. Issues arise owing to the cost of rent and the cost of new homes, but when you throw in concrete blocks it really is a perfect storm. There are several factors, including the fact that many people cannot sell the houses they are in. Donegal County Council cannot purchase homes because they have defective concrete blocks and...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It must be hard for the Minister not to understand why, despite all of the evidence that his plan is allegedly working, pretty much everybody else does not accept that is the case. While week after week the Minister dismisses those of us in the Opposition who highlight the lived reality of people unable to access secure and affordable homes, it will be virtually impossible for the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As we go around to canvass in Mayo, transport and public transport are among the biggest issues that come up. In addition to the lack of bus shelters and basic transport infrastructure, what comes up is the lack of interconnectedness between private and public operators and between city buses run by the likes of Bus Éireann, Citylink and GoBus and Iarnród Éireann services....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the sentences that has been repeated to me a lot over the past week is that the Government seems not to understand that there is a country outside of the Dublin area. There is a real divide in this country. It is really important to recognise the economic situation, especially in the midlands and north west, which is now a lagging area with lower incomes than the European average....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: That is very good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Rural Ireland wants to use public transport but we are making it very difficult. The 800 bus through Tullow town only meets the Arklow train to Dublin and not the Carlow train to Dublin. It is also stops far short of the new ETB campus on the Kilkenny Road in Carlow. The Taoiseach will know there are thousands of learners there but it is not served by public transport. We need to address...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I am new to Taoiseach's questions but we have come a long way from asking when the Cabinet committee will next meet. We will do our best. I thank colleagues for raising a variety of very important issues. I will take a moment on the very important issue Deputy Kenny raised about data sharing between the RSA and the local authorities and when that issue will be resolved. The RSA is...