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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the opportunity for the House to focus on people whose lives are literally falling apart outside these doors because they cannot find a home, cannot find security, and therefore, cannot find stability. What I hear from people, which I am sure many Members also hear day and day out, is "we have no home, we have no hope". What they have in abundance due to years of lack of supply of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, the best of luck in his new role. At the outset I must say that I am a block layer and a building contractor. I have been in the building sector all my life. One thing the Government never sees is the person who wants to buy his or her own house and we all hope that down the line, our children will be in a position to buy their own house. Do...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this and I thank Sinn Féin for the motion. Although I have great difficulties with the concept in the motion, I welcome the opportunity to speak to it and to focus again on the problem of housing. In Galway city, people are waiting 20 years. I do not need to exaggerate. People are 20 years on a waiting list in Galway city. The last time we built...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I congratulate the Minister of State also on his recent elevation and wish him the best of luck in his position. I will speak on affordable housing and housing in general. We have an affordability issue across the board. There is no doubt we have entered into a very different period in the past five to seven years, particularly post-pandemic, as regards the economic and regulatory...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, will speak on this motion which proposes delivering homes at prices that are within the reach of working class people. The proposals suggest that new homes could be sold to eligible buyers for less than €300,000, with the exact price varying based on the size and location of the home. However, the motion does not elaborate on how Sinn Féin plans to deliver a fully...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the motion and thank Deputy Ó Broin for his continuing work on the ongoing crisis in housing. The cutting edge of the last general election was housing and it will also be the cutting edge of the upcoming general election. Housing has been the standout issue for many people. Some people are directly affected, perhaps because they are in a situation of homelessness and just...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak about housing. I will first wish the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, well in his position. It is the first time I have met him across the floor. As a fellow coming from the west of Ireland, I know he will do his best to bring houses there. I will start with the affordable housing scheme. I spoke to the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "which Ireland is now facing": "; and calls on the Government to introduce legislation to allow for the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing as defined in Parts 2 and 3 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.". We are in the middle of a housing disaster. We have record levels of...

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...