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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How is it possible at a time of rising social housing output that homelessness is also rising? The answer is simple. The targets the Government has set in its plan are too low and it is not meeting those targets. The Minister is correct that just over 8,000 new-build social homes were delivered last year, which is 1,000 short of the Government's target. When you look at the total number...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I put it to the Deputy that many others would be in social homes right now if his party and colleagues had not continually objected to housing right across the country. The Deputy shares responsibility for that with Sinn Féin Deputies and councillors across the country. To be specific on exits, since 2022, some 5,524 adults were assisted to exit local authority emergency accommodation...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister's period of office comes to an end, he will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: presiding over the single largest increase in single, family and child homelessness in modern history. There is only one reason people become homeless: a failure of the State to ensure an adequate supply of social and affordable homes to meet the needs of households in crisis. In...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Right now, as I speak, approximately 26,000 social homes are at various different stages of construction in the pipeline. That is because the State, through Housing for All, has a multiannual, fully funded plan that will invest €5 billion in housing this year. Deputy Ó Broin likes to play ducks and drakes with facts. He knows that the reason social housing waiting lists have...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: And yet homelessness will rise.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----focusing on exiting people from homelessness, for which I have already given figures. We are already doing that. We will continue to do so during the course of this year. We are now seeing thousands of social homes and, more important, thousands of people getting their permanent, secure, social homes because of the measures-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister for homelessness. That is what the Minister will be remembered as.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----this Government is taking.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is no smiling matter. Child homelessness is no smiling matter.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please. You are making it impossible.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Do not try that again with me, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time, Minister. You are not going to-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: You are the Minister for homelessness.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Anyway, I will not get involved in this childish back and forth with Deputy Ó Broin.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Why would he answer a question about rising homelessness under his watch? What would he do that?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Shame on you.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies, Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Stop it. He is being ridiculous.