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Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister spoke about legal obligations on local authorities in this regard. That is relevant but if the funding model for social housing and maintenance is not fixed, we will continue to have this problem. It is scandalous that local authorities which own public housing do not meet the basic standards and legal requirements that any landlord has to meet. Local authorities enforce those...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: As previous speakers said, ending the housing crisis is about not just building new homes but also maintaining the housing stock we have. Every Deputy will give examples of what is happening in his or her constituency. We heard about black mould, which is common enough. We tried to get our local authority to use the county architect scheme to get people to come together and bring in their...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Johnny Mythen: We all know and agree there is not enough affordable and social housing available for councils to allocate. However, we also know there are councils across the entire country that are years behind on the maintenance and upkeep of their housing stock. The day-to-day maintenance of social housing is primarily funded by the rents paid by tenants. However, when it comes to county council...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. The Labour Party welcomes it. There is not a word in it that we would have any reservations about supporting. All the asks set out are reasonable and sensible and I see no reason the Government would not accept and implement it. Housing, as Deputy Bacik has said repeatedly, is the civil rights issue of our time. It affects every family...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Members would appreciate receiving copies of the Minister of State's speech.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a pity I did not have a copy his statement. He referred to a figure of €200 million. Considering there are 146,000 social housing units, that amounts to only €1,300 per unit. The Government will not get much bang for that buck. Considering the position of a lot of people who are living in flat complexes in Dublin city or other houses that are badly built or not fit for...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: These are the words of a county council tenant: The overflow in our attic was fitted incorrectly, so eventually it burst and came down through the lights in my bathroom and down through the ceiling into the sitting room and kitchen. There is water damage in the ceilings, both upstairs and downstairs. The extractor fan is hanging by one screw. These are the words of a city council...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

John Brady: The single largest landlord in the State is the Government. The least accountable landlord in the State is the Government. The worst offender in terms of ignoring its responsibilities to its tenants is the Government. Tens of thousands of tenants live in substandard and badly maintained accommodation across the State. In Wicklow, I deal with families and children weekly who are in damp,...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. The Government is not opposing the motion but will make clear the concerns being raised are being addressed through the various stock improvement programmes run by the Department and the steps being taken to move from a response based on repair and maintenance as problems arise to a strategic and informed planned maintenance approach to the...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: Social housing repair and maintenance is probably the second most common issue I hear about in my constituency office next to those seeking assistance and advice in obtaining a local authority house in the first place. Many of the people who come in bring in photographs or send me videos or invite me out to their houses to see the conditions they are living in, which are absolutely dreadful....

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I cannot tell the Minister of State how many times I have been in the following situation: I knock on a door and say, "How are you? We are canvassing for Sinn Féin. What issues are important to you?" The person says, "Come in here 'til I show you." They bring me into the house, upstairs and into the kitchen and they show me black all along the walls. I can feel the cold. I touch...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: This is an issue across the entire State. I am sure every one of us who is out canvassing or anywhere else will have seen the situation in local authority houses and other houses. There are many HAP tenants in privately-owned houses that are in very damp and very poor condition. The tenants have serious respiratory and other problems as a consequence. I recently visited a HAP tenant in a...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: In today's Ireland, hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and families face an impossible situation. They are confronted with a housing crisis of unprecedented proportion. Successive Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Governments have utterly failed on housing. Bad planning, mismanagement and downright dereliction have resulted in one of the worst shortages of social and affordable...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Sin críochnaíonn na ráitis. That concludes the statements. I acknowledge the presence of the soon-to-be-appointed ambassador from Palestine, the first ever. She has sat through this discussion for almost four hours, which is not easy to do given what is ongoing. I commend her on that.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — housing policy is not only about the number of homes delivered but the quality of those homes for tenants living in them; — as the State's largest landlord, Government has a particular responsibility to ensure, through funding for local authorities, that social housing tenants live in good quality homes; —...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Where is the senior Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, for the discussion of this very important motion? The man who is responsible for housing in this State does not even have the decency to come to the House this evening. Absolute contempt is being shown to the hundreds of thousands of people who live in 176,000 social homes when the Minister does not have the decency to turn up. It is a...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Chris Andrews: The public housing stock is the forgotten element in the Government’s housing policy. Those living in the flats and houses owned by Dublin City Council already know that. I do not know a block of flats managed by Dublin City Council that does not have serious issues, whether public health issues, dampness, mould, neglect, leaks, floods, electrical faults or rats - the list goes on...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Palestinian head of mission, who is soon to be the Palestinian ambassador to the House. We look forward to working well with her over many years to come. Our recognition of the State of Palestine today fits three fundamental purposes, and indeed many more. First, it makes clear our view that it is time that Palestine takes its place among the nations of the world and that...