Dáil debates

Thursday, 30 May 2024

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions

Housing Provision

10:30 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----and none of those homes are affordable. When we actually look at the schemes the Minister directly controls, that is, the delivery of cost rental by approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency and affordable purchase homes by local authorities, it was about 1,500. That is the number the Minister delivered and increasingly, many of those are not affordable.

I have to hand a brochure from North County Homes. The Minister will know it well; it is from his own constituency. That lists all the so-called affordable purchase homes by Fingal County Council. However, when we look at the cost of these homes, both entry-level prices and full cost, they are eye-watering. Almost every single one of them is over €400,000 and some are over €500,000. Will the Minister address the question specifically with respect to the two schemes I asked about and the lack of affordability within those two schemes?

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