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Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Does he tell them he will abolish that scheme? Does he tell them he will abolish the help-to-buy grant?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Does he tell them he will abolish the vacancy grant?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: We have put in place protections for renters also, from increased notice to quit periods, to a 2% permissible rent increase in the RPZs. We have had to delicately balance the rights of renters and the rights of property owners so as not to shrink the rental market any further-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----and to reduce the supply-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The party-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin's behaviour this evening is outrageous, even by his standards.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The party opposite want to take a sledgehammer to that and cause a further flight of landlords form the market, which will make the situation even worse.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Be in no doubt---

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----the availability of rental accommodation, as well as-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----the increase in homelessness-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----are of serious concern-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----to me and to this Government.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: That is why every action we take is to increase the supply of homes - social, private and affordable - and to prevent entries into and ensure exits from emergency accommodation.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: All of the data point to-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: All of the data point to a significant increase in supply. To go from delivery of just 20,000 new homes in 2021 to practically 30,000 in 2022 is significant by any yardstick. I am travelling all around the country on a weekly basis, I am meeting families-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----who are getting the keys of their homes. Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of opening 261 new homes in Limerick. That is 261 families and individuals who have the keys to their forever homes because of Housing for All and what this Government is doing. Last year, 10,263 families got new social homes. I met families who told me what it meant to them, and that is what matters to me,...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----whether the Deputy wants to acknowledge it or not-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----because it simply does not-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: It simply does not suit his own narrative or his agenda because he does not want to see-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: -----progress in housing.