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

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

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Government housing targets are simply too low, and not delivering the necessary number of affordable homes; — as we approach the one-year anniversary of the lifting of the temporary no-fault eviction ban, Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) data shows 19,011 eviction notices were issued in 2023, and 61 per cent of these were...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is worth repeating and stating at the outset that the housing crisis is but one crisis that underpins other crises we have throughout our society. As spokesperson for transport, I meet bus companies and rail companies and ask them why they do not have enough staff and why we have ghost buses in Dublin city. They will say they do not have enough staff because they cannot afford to live in...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I am happy to step in for the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, to discuss the Labour Party motion on housing targets and regulation. The Government is not opposing the motion. Work is already under way under the Government’s Housing for All plan on a number of proposals set out in the motion. I welcome the opportunity to update the House on the progress made to date and the...

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

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, could we get a copy of the Minister of State's speech? He is rattling through it and it would be great if we could a copy of the speech.

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

Michael Ring: Will a copy be provided?

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

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes. EUROCONSTRUCT, an independent construction market forecasting network, has forecasted that Ireland will grow construction output at the strongest rate among the 19 European countries – a very positive outlook for the future. With regard to the rental market, we know that challenges remain for both tenants and landlords. That is why we have commenced a comprehensive review...

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

Gerald Nash: With respect to the Minister of State, all we got from him this morning was a melange of disconnected words. That is what it was. Frankly, his disinterested tone is only equalled by this Government’s disinterested position on the delivery of housing for the hundreds of thousands in this country who need it and who need a change of approach and change of policy from this Government. ...

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....

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)

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.