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- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: Of course we need to do more, but if the Deputy looks at-----
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please let the Minister-----
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: He is not answering.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: HAP is State-supported housing. We can dance on a pinhead about what it is. Of course it is not council housing, but it is State-supported housing in that the State is paying. It is not the ideal. We want people to be in secure affordable homes with long-term secure tenure. That is the State's objective and why we have gone back to building at real scale. A total of 800 social housing...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: When Deputy Gould referred to price increases in the Minister's community, he challenged him. House prices in the Minister's community have increased by 50%. There has been an increase of €130,000 for an existing home in the Minister's community, a fact he ignored. He said the Government is delivering affordable and cost-rental housing. The Government has missed every single...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4: In page 12, line 26, to delete “designated environmental projects” and substitute “designated environmental projects or designated housing projects”.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: I thank Deputy Doherty for tabling these amendments and all the other Deputies for their contributions. We had a good discussion of this issue on Committee Stage. We do not agree entirely, that is for sure, but I set out then and am happy to set out now the reasons we are adopting the approach we are. I reiterate at the outset that housing will benefit from the establishment of the...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: The Minister mentioned "evidence-based". Obviously, the Minister is quite an intelligent man and being Minister for Finance, is good with figures. He quoted that Cork City Council delivered 800 additional houses. That is a misprint, that was 800 families. Some 1,000 to 1,200 came on to the housing waiting list the same year. I am not a genius or an expert in maths but if 800 houses are...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I will not be supporting amendments No. 6 and 7 but they give me a segue to raise a concern I have. I hope the Minister will be able to allay it in his closing remarks. The Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill is hugely important. The Minister has championed it and I commend him on it. It will allow us to protect pensions and the health service in the...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: I support these amendments in relation to the ability to draw down funding. We are in the middle of the worst housing crisis in the history of the State and we will not having the ability to access vital funding. We have the highest house prices, rent and homelessness figures in the history of the State. We have almost 8,000 people on housing lists in Cork. The Government's affordable...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael McGrath: That is not true.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: The Minister should check the figures published today. He probably has not seen them as he was here going through the Bill. I ask him to come back to me tomorrow. Everyone knows the target figures set by the Government and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, of just over 30,000 houses a year are too low. Then we hear the Minister say the Government will hold a review and look at the...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael Creed: What about the help-to-buy scheme that Sinn Féin will abolish?
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: Four thousand children are homeless. Is that your best contribution? Some 4,100 children are homeless and that is your best contribution.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael Creed: You will not help the situation.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Thomas Gould: Fianna Fáil has been in government for seven or eight years with it. You have made 4,000 children and 13,000 adults homeless and that is your best contribution.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Michael Creed: Sinn Féin will make it worse.