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

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chair for her forbearance in allowing us back in. We were late for our slot for one reason or another. I do not know what happened, since I was watching the debate, but sin scéal eile. I will follow on from what Deputy Healy-Rae said about Sinn Féin and objections. Sinn Féin espouses what Deputy Ó Broin says and always listens to what he says about...

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

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on housing. It is interesting to note that Sinn Féin is calling for "a radical reset of Government housing policy", which is the exact same call made by the Housing Commission in its report. This independent body, set up by Government to look at housing policy, also called for a "radical strategic reset of housing policy." Its...

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

Catherine Connolly: Fortunately, or unfortunately, in my rush, I have come in without glasses. I want to pick up from where I left off earlier. I thank Sinn Féin for this motion. It allows me to go into a little more detail, maybe with less passion than earlier. We had the report of the Housing Commission today and I look forward to reading the whole document. We already referred to the most important...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Housing Commission has simply confirmed what the dogs in the street know, namely that the Government's housing policy is an absolutely disastrous failure. The catalogue of human misery that this failure is visiting on thousands of individuals, families and children should be well known to the Minister of State if he is knocking on doors. He could not possibly miss it, because house...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and giving us the opportunity to discuss these important issues around housing. There is one question I have asked myself and that I wish to pose here. When the Government states that it thinks its Housing for All plan is working, does it really believe that? Is it that disconnected from what is happening in people's lives or is it just...

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

Duncan Smith: I was watching the Minister's contribution in my office just before I came down. I heard him say that Housing for All is working. It is not. Complex as the housing situation is, in many ways it is quite simple to see why it is not working. There are a couple of key metrics. Rents are going up; house prices are going up; and, key to all, homelessness is going up. Unless those trends are...

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

Debate adjourned.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 May 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - To discuss the closing of the pollack fishery and the collapse in shellfish prices for the inshore fishing industry. Deputy Mairéad Farrell - To discuss the provision of the special language...

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

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

The following motion was moved by Deputy Eoin Ó Broin on Tuesday, 21 May 2024:

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

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Alan Dillon)

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

Johnny Mythen: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for his momentous work on forming Sinn Féin's housing policy and bringing the motion to the Dáil. I have to say the Government's response to the breaking news this morning on part of the Housing Commission's report is bewildering. All Opposition parties have been saying for years that there is a national emergency housing crisis in this country. Sinn...

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

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague Deputy Ó Broin for bringing the motion to the House. To state the Government's housing policies are a disaster is a big understatement. There are record house prices throughout the State, home ownership is at its lowest rate in 50 years and generations are being denied any hope of ever having a home of their own. Instead, the red carpet is rolled out again and...

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

Dessie Ellis: The housing crisis is a manufactured crisis caused by bad housing policies by successive Governments and the dependence on private developers to increase the housing stock. It has continued to spiral out of control under this Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Party coalition. Young couples are finding it impossible to get on the property ladder even when both have good incomes. To add...

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

Alan Dillon: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes: — that Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland, now in its third year of implementation, sets out a comprehensive suite of actions aimed at addressing affordability in the housing sector and that supply, which is critical to achieving this, has increased...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have the highest rents ever. The average rent in Dublin now is €2,400 per month. We have the biggest housing list ever, with 134,000 in need of social housing. We have the greatest number of homeless ever, just short of 14,000 at the end of March this year. There were only 8,700 when the Government, including the Minister, entered office. There has been a 60% increase in four...

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

Seán Crowe: There was talk of a slowdown in rent rises after the latest Daft report, but new rents in south Dublin still rose by 4.2%. Unfortunately, wages did not go up, which is the big crisis facing many families. An average three-bedroom rented house in Tallaght now goes for over €2,200 per month, which is €27,000 per year. What family or individual can afford this on top of...

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I spoke earlier during statements and, not for the first time, I brought up the so-called affordable housing scheme at Cois Farraige, Blackrock, just outside Dundalk. In fairness to Louth County Council, it extended the time to ensure people could actually apply. Of the initial 26 applicants – I do not know how many more applied later – only five were able to meet the...

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