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Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: If I were to say "systemic failures, ineffective decision making, reactive policymaking, risk aversion, impacting supply, and undermining affordability", someone would think I was taking an excerpt from a speech Deputy Ó Broin had made in this House, but I am not. These are excerpts from the Housing Commission report, the Housing Commission that was set up and established by the...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank all Members of the House for their input to this afternoon's statements. I welcome the opportunity to add to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien's, opening statement and to highlight some of the key achievements. There is no silver bullet when addressing something as complex as the housing crisis. Through the Housing for All plan, we are confronting these challenges head on and we have...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: It has been two and a half years since Housing for All was published and what has the Minister to show for it? The answer is record-breaking homelessness, crumbling houses, defective dwellings and tents of asylum seekers. One thing is certain; the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, has not provided housing for all. Far from it. The housing situation in this country has never been so...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on these statements on Housing for All. I would have thought the topic might have changed given the commission report. I look at the Minister's opening statement again, as I do with all speeches. I listen to them and I read them. I am told by the Minister that Housing for All is working. I cannot imagine how the narrative in this speech could continue...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: In this House, we quite often talk about numbers and statistics but each one of these represents a household, a family, a pensioner or someone else in need. When these people receive that relevant notice to quit, their world is turned upside down and inside out. The impact on children is astronomical. Mentally, it is a pressure like no other. In Clare, the local authority is working with...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine the Government’s Housing for All policy. While others talk, Fianna Fáil in Government is a party of action on housing. Since his appointment, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, has delivered a sea change in the construction sector in Ireland. The legislative framework has been adapted and updated, and billions of euro have been...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to contribute to the debate. I thank the officials in Tipperary County Council, formerly South Tipperary County Council, and a wonderful, outstanding council official, Mr. Sean Lonergan, who is retiring after decades of service to the council and the people of County Tipperary. He is an outstanding public servant with great ideas, vision and passion. Unfortunately, he did...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Housing for All initiative is evidently not meeting its goals. Homelessness has reached unprecedented levels. I am very worried because the presence of even a single homeless individual is a national embarrassment, yet the Government seems complacent about the nearly 14,000 people, including 4,000 children, who are currently without homes. Since the launch of Housing for All,...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Housing for All is a miss because the Government is not providing houses for all. If it were, it would allow the people who want to provide their own houses to build them, and it could then provide more houses for the people who need them. What it is actually doing is pricing people who want to build their own houses out of the market. It is then allowing vulture funds to buy up housing in...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: As I stand here this evening, there are families, individuals and couples, all prospective first-time buyers, in the Clonakilty area of west Cork who are gutted. I am gutted too. I will explain why. For the first time, west Cork was going to see the delivery of an affordable housing scheme - something that I and the people of the area had been seeking for years. There was finally going to...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Be careful in relation to people's identities.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I have not identified any developer, but this is a situation that I do not want to see happen again.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I have no problem with the situation; I just do not want anyone identified.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I do not want to see this happen again in circumstances where the State or local authorities deal with people who act in such a way. I want to get that across. I feel for the families. They will have to wait a couple of years before the next affordable housing scheme comes along again. Thankfully, we will see one in Bandon very shortly. We will see one in Kinsale. There will be another...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Next is Deputy Daly, who is sharing time with Deputy Ó Murchú.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Pa Daly: Probably 60% of the representations that we receive in our office have to do with housing. This week alone, I dealt with a woman from west Kerry who could not afford housing in Dingle because much of it costs approximately €350,000, a couple from Kerry whose rent had doubled over the past four years, a woman who had been on the housing list for 16 years and was living in a small room...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I wish to discuss the affordable housing scheme in County Louth, specifically Cois Farraige in Blackrock just outside Dundalk. Time was extended to allow more people to apply. Initially, there were just 26 applications, only five of which met the criteria. Council officials said that the difficulty lay with the criteria. Not for the first time, I will put it on the record that I do not...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: On behalf of the Regional Group, I am grateful for the opportunity to make some brief comments on the Housing for All strategy. As the Minister of State knows, we on this side of the House are always fair. From a political point of view, Housing for All is the only strategy that exists, so we are critiquing a strategy in isolation. I would like it if there were two or three alternatives...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am afraid the words of the previous speaker are a simplistic resolution to a serious and extensive housing problem that has bedevilled Members of this House for many years. Unfortunately, it was not possible to do the things that needed to be done at the time. First of all, we did not have money. It is important when one is trying to solve a housing problem to have money and to be able...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is very easy to come in here and talk about a leaked report. Many of us are talking about a leaked report and can only comment on what is in the public domain, whether on the RTÉ website or in some of the local papers. I think a few facts need to be stated at the outset. One that strikes me the most is the EU comparison. With the development and increase in our stock here, we are...