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- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I welcome this opportunity to debate the issue of housing in this House. Housing is consistently the number one issue of concern in communities throughout the country. It is acknowledged by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, by the Taoiseach and by other Ministers that housing is the single biggest challenge facing the Government now. We often hear from Government benches, even while...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Published in 2021, as the Minister knows.
- 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)
Michael Ring: I thank the Minister, but his time is up.
- 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)
Eoin Ó Broin: Where was the Minister's housing plan while in opposition? It was nowhere to be seen.
- 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)
Eoin Ó Broin: Ours has been published-----
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputies, please. Can we have order?
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----well in advance of the election, unlike the Minister's.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Michael Ring: The next speaking slot is Sinn Féin's, with five speakers. I would like it if they were fair to one another and only took two minutes each.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. A few short weeks ago amid the celebrations for the new Taoiseach, the Minister's Government colleague, Eamon Ryan, stated that the Minister had turned around the housing crisis. If by that he meant the Minister had turned it into a complete shambles, he was right. The figures do not lie. House prices are skyrocketing, with the price of...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When I listen to the Minister, I usually try to figure out which parts of what he says he believes and which parts he does not. It is not always that easy, but I am sure there is a great deal he does not believe. He speaks of hypocrisy, but he knows perfectly well that the objections made by Sinn Féin representatives were made on the basis of affordability. Yes, there should be...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. Each time the housing crisis is discussed in the House, the Minister tries to avoid his failures by producing misleading figures. How many affordable houses have been delivered under the local authority affordable purchase scheme in Tipperary? The answer is "None". At the same time, people are facing a rental market collapse, with the...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Réada Cronin: The words "affordable" and "housing" rarely go together when discussing north Kildare. In north Kildare, workers are either beggaring themselves to pay extortionate rents, living at home with their parents if they are lucky, or house sharing into their 30s and 40s, with all the personal and social issues that come with that, for example, a lack of privacy and personal space, the inability to...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Johnny Mythen: I commend Deputy Ó Broin and the rest of my party on allowing me the parliamentary time to debate this important motion on affordable housing. We know the cost-rental and affordable purchase targets were missed by 60% last year. In fact, no affordable homes were built in my home county of Wexford. Time and again, we have seen young people's hopes dashed against the backdrop of...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am paying attention.
- 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)
Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister stays until the end, I will answer all of them.
- 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...