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- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that I have not been able to answer the charges that have been put forward by some of the Deputies opposite, but that probably suits them.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that this Government: — published its housing plan, Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland (Housing for All), in September 2021, with record levels of funding in place to support the delivery of the plan, and unprecedented guaranteed State investment of over...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----that have been referenced here already. We are working with every tool available to us to drive down the numbers in homelessness. The approach to homelessness has to be housing-led. It has to be about increasing supply across all tenures - social housing, affordable housing, private housing and rental housing. Deputies have referenced the lack of rental housing on the market. Some...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: In Sinn Féin's most recent budget manifesto, the only proposal relating to rental properties was to add a €400 second home tax on individual landlords, the very mom and pop landlords Deputy Ó Broin says he wants to keep in the market. That was the Sinn Féin proposal. Let us get back to the facts. The reality is that housing is not a political game. Deputies should...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: They do not believe the LDA should even plan for houses. Do they want the four planning applications for 2,400 homes recently lodged by the LDA to be refused? Do they want to see those homes built? Maybe they do not. That may be the reason that, as we discussed earlier-----
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Gould should try to behave himself, please.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Tá brón orm, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will not state the obvious, but the reality is that there is a need to build supply up, and supply is increasing. Supply is increasing across the board, albeit not to the levels we need. We need to go further. To March 2022, we had the highest number of residential units completed since 2011. That is 22,219 new homes. It is not possible...
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult to continue with the repeated interruptions.
- Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: There is a need to build up supply and capacity across all tenures. Housing for All will deliver, and is delivering, the single biggest social housing programme in the history of the State. It is doing that. It will deliver thousands of new social homes this year. I believe in homeownership but I do not believe Sinn Féin does. Sinn Féin has railed against the help to buy scheme...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: You never even responded-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is on the Official Record. Tell the truth.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not in the €4 billion-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: My God, Deputy McDonald, your arrogance today has not just gone stratospheric; it has gone intergalactic.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: We would need NASA's Webb telescope to be able to track it. Housing is a key political issue of our time. We know people stuck in a rent trap or on social housing waiting lists are desperate for somewhere to secure and afford.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: Parents and grandparents want to see their children buying a decent home, like they did at a similar age. The Government is committed to tackling this as our number one priority. After a decade of undersupply, as the Taoiseach said, the numbers of new builds, commencements and planning permissions are up. More and more people are drawing down mortgages and buying new homes. The first...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: This is a real plan. I say to Sinn Féin Deputies, if they want to deliver homes, they should stop objecting to measures like the 6,000 homes in Dublin to which they objected-----
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: -----including the schemes for Oscar Traynor Road, O'Devaney Gardens and Ballymastone. I could go on.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: They say one thing and do another. They block progress, delay delivery, disrupt and sow discontent.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)
Darragh O'Brien: We have a housing plan that is taking hold. It will work and the Deputies opposite should support it.