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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When I listen to the Minister, I usually try to figure out which parts of what he says he believes and which parts he does not. It is not always that easy, but I am sure there is a great deal he does not believe. He speaks of hypocrisy, but he knows perfectly well that the objections made by Sinn Féin representatives were made on the basis of affordability. Yes, there should be...

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

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. Each time the housing crisis is discussed in the House, the Minister tries to avoid his failures by producing misleading figures. How many affordable houses have been delivered under the local authority affordable purchase scheme in Tipperary? The answer is "None". At the same time, people are facing a rental market collapse, with the...

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

Réada Cronin: The words "affordable" and "housing" rarely go together when discussing north Kildare. In north Kildare, workers are either beggaring themselves to pay extortionate rents, living at home with their parents if they are lucky, or house sharing into their 30s and 40s, with all the personal and social issues that come with that, for example, a lack of privacy and personal space, the inability to...

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

Johnny Mythen: I commend Deputy Ó Broin and the rest of my party on allowing me the parliamentary time to debate this important motion on affordable housing. We know the cost-rental and affordable purchase targets were missed by 60% last year. In fact, no affordable homes were built in my home county of Wexford. Time and again, we have seen young people's hopes dashed against the backdrop of...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am paying attention.

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

Darragh O'Brien: If Deputy Ó Broin has put forward the motion as a plan, he should put some detail behind it. Will he provide clarity on whether these homes would be eligible for mortgages due to the first-charge and leasehold concerns? What restrictions would be placed on the property? We know that people would not be able to freely sell their home in a leasehold position, but would Sinn Féin...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister stays until the end, I will answer all of them.

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

Darragh O'Brien: -----even in respect of a very simple question as to where Sinn Féin's housing plan is. In 2022, the first full year of delivery under Housing for All, we delivered close to 30,000 homes, 5,000 more than our target. We saw continued progress in 2023 and we are seeing it again this year, as the plan and its many reforms have gained a firm footing. In 2023, we delivered more than...

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

Pauline Tully: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years. In that time, homeownership has collapsed and 40% of people in their 30s are still living in their family homes. We know that, as of March, nearly 14,000 people were accessing emergency accommodation. More than 4,000 of these people were children. Due to the actions and inaction of the current Government, workers and families cannot afford...

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

Martin Kenny: When we are all out at people's doors these days canvassing, as I am sure the Minister is as well, we meet an awful lot of people. That is where we get our information. That is when we find out what is really happening across the length and breadth of the country. I was in south Sligo at the weekend. I met a woman who moved home from abroad in the past couple of years. She lived in...

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

Chris Andrews: Seven years ago, the Ringsend, Irishtown, Pearse Street and Sandymount communities did a deal with the Government for the delivery of social and affordable houses on a particular site. Families and individuals in the inner city are in desperate need of housing, both social and affordable. Inner city communities have been neglected for decades. They are expected to live in conditions that...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I was really glad to hear one of the Government TDs at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach earlier say a number of times that we should declare a housing emergency. Even the Government's own TDs are saying it. Its councillors and candidates on the ground recognise it and they are saying the same thing. The Minister needs to listen to them, but they...

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

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

Michael Ring: I call on Deputy Ó Broin, who is sharing his time.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — house prices continue to spiral out of control with prices for new homes up 9 per cent last year; — rents are also rising and have increased by 9 per cent for new tenancies and 6 per cent for existing renters in the last year; — the Government missed their new build social housing target by 11 per cent last...

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

Mairead Farrell: Around this time five years ago, local elections took place. We heard all the talk that there was going to be affordable housing delivered on the east side of Galway city. I distinctly remember people asking about the affordable housing that was going to be delivered. Since then, in the past five years people have consistently come to me and asked when that affordable housing will be...

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

Paul Donnelly: Despite the Taoiseach’s bluster this afternoon, the Minister has failed to deliver truly affordable homes. Either he is involved in a massive smokescreen of misinformation or is so completely out of touch that he genuinely believes he is delivering affordable housing for people who are so desperate that they will jump on any of his schemes, not to get on the property ladder but to own...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Michael Ring: The Deputy had his say. He was late coming in. I was lenient and let him contribute, but now he should have a bit of manners.

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I appreciate it, but-----

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Michael Ring: No, I thank the Deputy. Let the Minister of State speak.