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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend my solidarity and support to the families of the 48 who never came home from the Artane fire in 1981. I hope that today is the day they finally get the truth and justice they deserve after their 40-year long struggle. Next Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. outside the Dáil, the Raise the Roof campaign will hold a major rally demanding secure and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said earlier, housing is the most important issue facing this country and our people. We have to focus on policies that will increase the number of houses we can build every year. This will also increase the number of houses that are available to the rental market. What the Deputy has put forward would, I suggest, depress the number of houses available to the rental market and lead to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Again, I say to the Deputy, everything or the majority of what she has outlined there or some of what she has suggested would reduce supply of houses, which is about curtailing the market or restricting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: Does the Tánaiste think that his approach is working?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: We do not have to do this as we have already curtailed the bulk purchasing of property through the planning laws and through a stamp duty.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: It is not working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: It is not working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is working, despite all of the Deputy's spin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for apartments.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and the evidence is there in that the vast majority of house purchases-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: The Government could have introduced an eviction ban.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: ----in the country are by citizens and individuals. We have had the highest number of first-time buyers in years on an ongoing basis. What does that tell the Deputy? It tells us that affordability is improving-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the question?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----for quite a number of first-time buyers. We doubled the number of affordable homes this year and we will continue to increase the direct intervention by the State. This is not spin, because Housing for All is a fairly substantial document. It has been updated, and so forth and there are quarterly reports.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: It would be great if the Tánaiste answered my question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have seen no other substantive document from any party saying how we are going to get to building 40,000 or 50,000 houses per annum. We can all pluck figures out of the air but we need an actual programme and clear policy platform as to how one gets more houses built-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Holly Cairns: That is what I have been talking about for the past four years and why we have raised 255 amendments.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and how one gets more houses into the private rental market. I would suggest the Deputy's policies would take more houses out of the private rental market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Shanahan now on behalf of the Regional Group.