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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer all of those questions if the Minister stays until the end of the debate for the first time in five years.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Ó Broin picks figures out of the sky because he believes they will be popular. The reality is the public sees through his alternative plan, which is a home someone will never own, because that it what Sinn Féin is proposing.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to answer if the Minister stays until the end for once. Take your job seriously.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I take it very seriously. I have respect for this House, unlike you or your party.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister will be here until the end then.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Stay until the end and listen to everybody, Minister, for the first time in five years.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, you are using up the time. I am going to let the clock run.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Ó Broin as an rún seo. It is clear that the Government's affordable purchase scheme is failing, yet the Minister is here trying to keep the charade going. House prices are continuing to spiral out of control, increasing by 10% in the past year alone. The Government's so-called affordable purchase homes, with prices ranging from...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Johnny Mythen: Housing is one of the greatest problems facing our country today. From Dubai to Toronto to New York and from Canada to Australia, we have lost another generation of young people. They are leaving because they simply cannot afford to buy or rent a home in their own country. Domestically, our young people have lost any hope of ever owning a home of their own. Rents and house prices have...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Last night, I talked to a young family in Lusk. They are a husband, wife and two kids. I know them and knew them when they lived in Swords. They were evicted from their property because their landlord was selling up. They are both working and have good jobs. They work damn hard. In any normal, functioning society, those people would, without question, be able to buy their own home....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: As the Minister knows, Simon Communities today released its quarterly report, Locked Out of the Market, on the experience of people on low incomes and those relying on HAP in accessing the housing market. We did not have to see this report to know that in Limerick city, where I live, no properties are available to rent under the HAP scheme. The report found that 12 of the 16 areas analysed...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That 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; - Housing for All and the Affordable Housing Act 2021, have put in place...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, they will.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt once.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am confirming it for you again.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We know this is not correct. Deputy Ó Broin knows this is not correct. It is also very misleading. Deputy Ó Broin himself admits there are concerns to be addressed with his party's scheme. His proposed solutions to the concerns are simply quite bizarre. On 3 October, in response to questions from the Business Post on security risks and securitisation risks with the scheme,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, absolutely.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Do they recognise the inherent unfairness in a cohort of purchasers having a State guarantee, a safety net that Sinn Féin is providing, if they were to default on their mortgage, while the majority of other mortgage holders would not? Are they aware of, or have they had conversations on, the state aid issues for such a guarantee scheme? To further complicate matters, Deputy Ó...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If you stay to the end, I will be happy to-----

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am also interested in what Deputy Ó Broin has to say to a couple earning the average wage on a joint income of €90,000. Deputy Ó Broin floundered on this the last time we debated it on RTÉ. His plan excludes such couples entirely from the Sinn Féin scheme. Through his plan, he is telling them Sinn Féin does not want to know about them. Does Deputy...