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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: The Government is acutely aware of the difficulties in the housing market and the challenges this continues to present for many people and families as they seek a new home, often their first. With regard to vacant properties, the need to address vacancy and to ensure all viable housing stock is being used is a priority for the Government. In Housing for All, the Government has set out a...

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

Claire Kerrane: I met a member of the Defence Forces in my constituency office this week. He has two children with additional needs and his wife is their full-time carer. He has been in the Defence Forces for nearly 20 years. He is renting privately and is one of the fortunate ones in that his landlord has not increased the rent, not yet anyway. However, he understands the landlord will now sell the...

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

Kathleen Funchion: I remind everybody that we have a surplus of money in this country. We are not in any way a poor country. However, yesterday, the Children's Rights Alliance released figures in its annual child poverty monitor, which clearly show that for many families rent affordability is still the single biggest driver of child homelessness. The number of children living in emergency accommodation...

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

Amendment put.

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

Marian Harkin: The division is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (21 May 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Tax Credits

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his views on the success of the mortgage interest tax credit; and if he will consider amending its design to ensure that all mortgage holders who have seen a significant increase in the mortgage costs they are facing will receive adequate support. [23004/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: In the past two years, mortgage interest costs have soared for households. They have increased by 71% over the past two years. As the Minister knows, some mortgage holders are being charged more than 7%. These are loans that were sold, in particular to vulture funds, as a result of the policy of two of the parties in government. As the Minister knows, Sinn Féin has called for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputy for the question. Mortgage interest tax relief, in the form of the mortgage interest tax credit, introduced in the most recent budget, is a one-year temporary relief available to homeowners with an outstanding mortgage balance on their principal private residence of between €80,000 and €500,000 on 31 December 2022. It is available at the standard rate of...

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

Marian Harkin: Deputies Buckley, Kerrane and Funchion are sharing time.

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

Pat Buckley: I ask the Government to withdraw its countermotion. What we know so far about the Housing Commission report is that it calls for a radical reset of Government housing policy. That is what we call for in our motion. From what we have heard so far, the report indicates we have a deficit of over 256,000 houses. Some 23,500 homes would have to be built every year in addition to the targeted...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Is the Deputy serious? That is a disgraceful comment.

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

Mattie McGrath: -----but as far as its legions are concerned, they are well heeled and well paid members of the Judiciary, associate with them and everything else and they know all the avenues, stopping people providing their own homes.

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

Marian Harkin: Thank you, Deputy.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is time that we debunked all of these well-heeled organisations and provided people who want to, and can, build their own houses the wherewithal to do so and not have all of this inside in a big heap and mess and we have nothing only brus.

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

Marian Harkin: The Deputy’s time is up. I call Deputy Wynne.

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the opportunity to speak on housing. We have had two housing debates back to back. The Government mentions big statistics from this year and last and improvements in its figures, but we have come from a very low point in the first place, and that is why the Government is not getting the positive reaction for which it has been hoping. For months, I have been chasing progress on...

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

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I will try to address some of their queries and issues before making my statement. Deputy O’Callaghan again asked a broad question about whether Housing for All was working. We believe it is. It is taking time, but it is delivering positive results. The Deputy also raised the issue of relationship breakdown. It is a reality and has...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this important motion before the Dáil. I remind the Labour Party, the hurlers on the ditch who criticise me for not declaring an interest, that I declare an interest in the whole housing situation because it is a business that I have been involved in for many decades. I will not be accused of being a critic of Sinn Féin because I am not. I...