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Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I fully support the motion. Only the week before last, I and my party called for the resignation of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government due to the appalling waste of public money on the electronic voting fiasco.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I support the Labour Party's call on the Minister to resign as he and the Government have failed miserably to produce a sustainable and viable housing policy. The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, arrogantly wasted money, which would have gone a long way in the area of social and other housing, on a white elephant.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I am not the Minister just yet.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The current Government should be ashamed of its record on social housing. It has continually failed to meet its commitments to social housing under the national development plan, leaving more than 60,000 people on local authority waiting lists and at least 5,000 people homeless, sleeping in bed and breakfasts and on our streets. Time and again, on the Order of Business and other occasions, I...

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: May I speak?

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Those at the mercy of the private rental sector have suffered the effects of a system in chaos, which is still not regulated 100 years after the rights of tenants on the land were first established. It is a blight on the Government's record. Those trying to get a foot on the property ladder are finding it impossible because of stealth taxes imposed by the current Fianna Fáil led Government....

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Minister of State has raised concerns among people with disabilities who need financial assistance to adapt their homes. He is reported to have said the disabled person's grant scheme was in need of reform because "some counties approve too many grants." What does he mean by this? Does he mean some grants should not have been approved?

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I am entitled to conclude. The Chair interrupted me.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Chair interrupted me unfairly. I am entitled to my time. Is this dictatorship at its best?

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: If it suits the Chair, I will withdraw it.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I am disappointed.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government should tackle it.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Action is needed, not figures.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: In 2002, 10,000 affordable houses were promised but the Minister of State has not delivered a single brick.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Minister of State is very hypocritical this evening.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: I will bring the Minister of State to elderly people living in sheds. He has cut the disabled person's grant.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: When will the Minister of State deliver the 10,000 affordable houses that were promised in the run-up to the last general election?

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: It squandered €60 million in taxpayers' money on e-voting.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government introduced development charges that affect every young person building a house. They are paying over €7,000——

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: What is focused?