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Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: He loves the landlord rent money.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a fright they do not have the manners to let a person have his time.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: As a person who has been in the building trade all his life, since leaving school early at 15, I have built many houses for people. I was glad to have and to create employment building houses. When I look at the record of the Labour Party and hear its members heckling across the floor, saying this, that and the other, I note the same people said in the media that they would build 1 million...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In order to solve the absolutely disastrous housing situation we are in and the human misery that is wrecking the lives of the 13,500 people who are homeless and the hundreds of thousands of young people and working people who are absolutely locked out of the possibility of ever owning their own home and who, increasingly, are leaving the country because of that or because they cannot even...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward the motion. I welcome the opportunity to speak on it. Housing has become the single biggest issue not just in Dublin and other cities but right across the country. It is an issue in every rural constituency, including my own in Galway East, where we do not have enough houses being built. I will focus first on social housing. I accept there...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: Deputies Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy of People Before Profit-Solidarity will share time with four minutes each.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: It will be about three minutes and five minutes. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. We agree with a lot of what is in the motion, including better security for tenants, compulsory purchase of vacant and derelict buildings by local authorities, and bigger housing targets. The only thing is that it is a shame the Labour Party did not do any of that when it was in...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I want to raise the issue of student accommodation and regulation, or rather the lack thereof. In terms of vulture fund-owned student accommodation, I have identified about 45 of these complexes across the State. According to the RTB's latest register, only seven of them were registered with it. We know that around half of these complexes now have some form of a 51-week lease requirement,...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: The glass bottle site is a big site. Residents in Ringsend and Irishtown had big hopes that affordable and social housing would be delivered on that site, which would relieve the huge pressure residents are currently living under, and the overcrowded conditions, and would give people an opportunity to buy an affordable home in the community with the supports they require and deserve. That...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: Yesterday the Taoiseach indicated that the Government would not be opposing this motion but I take it that is just for appearance. Many of the ambitions in the motion are in stark contrast to the view of the value of a home beyond that of a commodity. The motion calls for an EU plan that will end the financialisation of housing and tackle speculation in the housing system. This is clearly...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have just come from the Carrickdale hotel, where a very successful cross-Border conference is ongoing. It was organised by Newry and Dundalk chambers of commerce and is backed by the local authorities on either side of the Border. The Minister, Conor Murphy MLA, and the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond, are speaking at it and it is all very positive. We all know the positives...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: Deputy, please.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ----estate management is an area where we are failing communities. We need the interventions for families and individuals with complex needs, but we are allowing communities to be detrimentally impacted by those who are chaotic. We need further supports and the council needs those supports.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: I thank everybody else for their co-operation on keeping to time. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan is next and has eight minutes.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion. There are a number of elements to it and I will discuss some of them. We all know the housing targets are insufficient. The Government has asked the ESRI to do a piece of work on projecting housing need. The Government is going to base its targets on that. I have just come from a meeting of the housing committee on the planning Bill. We...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Obviously, neither the Minister for housing nor the Ministers of State in that Department are present today, but the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, is from Fine Gael and his party has been in government for 13 years now. I want to tell him what that has meant for the people of Donegal. In 2002, 560 social houses were either built or acquired in just one year. That was in 2002...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Speaker after speaker will tell the Minister of State that the Government is out of touch and, clearly, it is. I will give an example from my own area, because I think the Minister of State's knowledge of the facts is slightly less than ideal. I have two offices: one in Balbriggan and one in Swords. I am the only Deputy in my constituency who offers that, so naturally I get a lot more...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I want to address three issues in the time afforded to me. First is the inspections regime of local authorities for private rented accommodation. I recently tabled a parliamentary question in which I asked how many inspections were carried out across all of the local authorities. The latest figures from Cork County Council, for example, show that from quarter 1 to quarter 3 of 2023, there...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: The next slot is Sinn Féin. Deputy Gould has six minutes, Deputy Mac Lochlainn four minutes, Deputy O'Reilly two minutes, Deputy Mairéad Farrell two minutes, Deputy Andrews two minutes, Deputy Martin Browne two minutes, and Deputy Ó Murchú two minutes. I want them to keep to their time.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: In the middle of all the statistics, targets and missed targets of this housing crisis, it is very easy to forget about real people and the real trauma they are experiencing. Just this morning, two people contacted my office. One was a mother with a four-year-old child who is couch surfing in her family's home because she cannot find anywhere to rent. She is on the social housing list....