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Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...truth. Acquisitions solve no problems. They are just eating into another aspect of the market. The next time the Minister of State gets a chance to address this, could he explain to me why State land is not used? If the local authorities are not fit to build or provide housing, why does the Government not create an entity to do so? It does not have to be a big quango. Somebody should...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...Arrow to Cerberus at a par value of over €6 billion. NAMA was allowed to sell it for €800 million although it had a par value of over €6 billion. It was all residential property in Ireland. I begged Fine Gael and the Labour Party not to sell the portfolio to Cerberus, which is obviously making mad money on it now. Where is the logic in that? It is gone. Why do...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Damien English: ...of years ago of massaging the figures by counting voids as new properties. As a result, the Minister changed how the figures were recorded. He parked the properties originally allocated under Rebuilding Ireland and numbering approximately 560. However, the reality is that 1,760 were brought back into use. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan raised the issue of voids in Limerick. Funding has been...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...social houses Wexford were built in 2018. That does not come close to dealing with the problem. As I stated previously, I was very disheartened when the Government came up with the idea of the Land Development Agency. It was soul destroying. I do not understand why the Government would turn over State land to developers. The sites will provide 10% social housing and 60% private...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...awful problem in this country in that we do not do a bit of planning ahead of building a house. We think it will just fall down out of the sky. Right around this country the State owns a lot of land and it has never pursued an objective of putting in sewage treatment plants, having the water there, making sure that the planning has gone through and having the roads put in because that is...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...We have most of the debate in the media on Dublin. The report from the council is that Galway is the second worst and daft.iehas confirmed that it has risen by 13%. A major contributory factor in landlords existing the RAS scheme alone is that tenants cannot pay close to the current market rents and this is a rent pressure zone. The landlords who are there are exiting the market. We...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...right direction in the same week that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which is dominated by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and assisted by the Green Party in this particular instance, flogged off land wholly owned by it in Cherrywood to - guess who - Johnny Ronan. The boys are back in town, facilitated by the State and the major political parties. When we opposed the plan to...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...that the Government itself has accepted we need in order to address the housing crisis. There does not seem to be any significant change in policy. I refer to the decision to use available State land, most of which is owned by local authorities. Housing experts like Mr. Mel Reynolds have said there is enough local authority-owned land zoned for housing to build 30,000 units in the...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Pat Casey: ...there are not enough homes for our people. We need to build, purchase and acquire sufficient housing units to radically increase the supply of homes. Homes can only be built on appropriately zoned lands. Builders in the construction industry build these homes and have a duty of quality of provision. Planners ensure that homes are appropriate to the area in which they are being built...