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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.

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...