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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Based on what the Cabinet announced today, unfortunately, not only will half those homes be unaffordable private units but, equally, the 22% of homes that are so-called affordable will also be way beyond the reach of ordinary people. What we want are affordable public homes on public land. In fact, the all-in cost of the affordable purchase in this regard, based on Cabinet information...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not affordable.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Derelict Sites (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given his role in overseeing the vacant homes strategy, his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between derelict units recorded in the GeoDirectory residential buildings report and those on the derelict sites register nationally; if his attention has been further drawn to the lack of implementation and collection...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to slow down the disorderly exit of accidental and semi-professional landlords from the private rented sector and its impact on rising levels of homelessness. [3576/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister knows, since 2017 there has been a net loss of 20,000 rental tenancies from the private rental sector. That equates to about 7,000 a year up to 2020. We do not have data from the Residential Tenancies Board for last year but the expectation is that the rate will continue. Given this loss of rental properties is one of the many factors contributing to the crisis in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of what the Minister said addressed the core question I asked. What is the plan to deal with the disorderly exit of semi-professional and accidental landlords from the market, something that has been in train for three years and will more than likely continue for four years? The argument that supply will tackle the problem simply does not add up. The Government's housing plan promises...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What that shows is that the Minister has no plan and landlords will continue to sell up.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have repeatedly called for four key policies. The Minister knows them but I will repeat them again. The first is to end the prohibition on local authorities buying properties with housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenants in situ when the landlord is selling. Many landlords who are leaving the market would be delighted for the local authority to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We just want people to be able to afford houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: At what price?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not affordable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: €400,000 for a family home.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: An affordable housing crisis, created by you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are against unaffordability for working people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Fleecing people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Taoiseach is not living in the real world.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of genuinely affordable homes to rent and to buy on an estate (details supplied) and Poolbeg, Dublin city. [3324/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the social housing output as of the end of Q4 of 2021. [3323/22]