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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----that people would not even be able to mortgage.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It behoves Deputy Ó Broin to publish his housing plan once and for all and to back it up with real statistics. We will continue to build real homes.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is Sinn Féin not going to publish its own?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If Deputy Ó Broin has put forward the motion as a plan, he should put some detail behind it. Will he provide clarity on whether these homes would be eligible for mortgages due to the first-charge and leasehold concerns? What restrictions would be placed on the property? We know that people would not be able to freely sell their home in a leasehold position, but would Sinn Féin...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----even in respect of a very simple question as to where Sinn Féin's housing plan is. In 2022, the first full year of delivery under Housing for All, we delivered close to 30,000 homes, 5,000 more than our target. We saw continued progress in 2023 and we are seeing it again this year, as the plan and its many reforms have gained a firm footing. In 2023, we delivered more than...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: He should go back and watch the video he made.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: He was in the video standing outside on the plinth.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Was it AI generated?

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I join in the welcome to the families here today. I join with the Taoiseach, the Government and all of us who are privileged enough to sit in the House in issuing a full and unreserved State apology. It is right and fitting for this Chamber to offer, however late in the day, whatever solace we can. Like so many others, I remember that day. I was only six years old at the time but had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I completely and utterly reject what the Deputy has just said. It is a measure and an option that is available. Every tenant in the country has been written to through the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, with the options available. The scheme operates on an administrative basis and nothing will stop with regard to applications. I have already said to the Deputy that it must be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can have a chat with his colleagues who are sitting behind him.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy. We developed the cost rental tenant in situ scheme for tenants in private rental homes who are at risk of homelessness because the landlord intends to sell. This was an add-on to the tenant in situ scheme which I mentioned earlier. There were more than 1,800 purchases last year and we will continue that scheme into this year. We will continue the cost rental tenant in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will come back to Deputy Wynne on it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have the majority report and the minority report on the proposals on how housing would be reflected in the Constitution. I do not have the overall Housing Commission report. It will come in time. It is about the future of housing in Ireland. While we are doing this, as we have said in answer to questions previously, it is important we continue to increase our housing supply, including...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Unquestionably, the Croí Cónaithe grant scheme is working extremely well. The Deputy would also know that, because it is Exchequer funding, there have to be checks and balances on the payments of grants. I know Sinn Féin might play fast and loose with money from time to time but, in fairness, it is Exchequer funding and we have to be careful with it. The scheme has taken...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy has rightly mentioned there are two reports on this. There is the majority report and the minority report, both of which have to be considered together. I welcome that. It shows that the commission has done good work and there are different views on it. It is complex. We have seen with regard to Bunreacht na hÉireann that one must be extremely careful and respectful of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No. I will do that when I come back in.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: You opposed it, Pearse.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I reject completely the charge that we have stuck our heads in the sand. Let us deal with the issue itself, however. Deputy Doherty is aware that in June of last year, I commenced the enhanced scheme through the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022. I remind him that he and his party voted against that enhanced scheme, which would have left...