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

Richard O'Donoghue: It is because the Government is the same thing over and over again. Three years ago, a house cost €120 per sq. ft and the Government took 13.% on top of that which was €16,200. Today, it costs €200 per sq. ft and the Government takes €27,000. That is for every 1,000 sq. ft of a house from people who are working and paying for their own houses. That is what the...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We move to Deputy Catherine Connolly who is sharing with Deputy Joan Collins.

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

Joan Collins: I am Deputy Joan Collins.

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is the other way around. Mea culpa.

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

Joan Collins: Unfortunately, I cannot support this motion. This is not an endorsement of the Government's five-year total failure on housing. It is not even a rejection of the motion's argument for how an affordable housing scheme could work. I generally support Sinn Féin's housing policy. We discussed it at our branch meeting in Dublin South-Central recently. What I object to is the shift in...

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for this opportunity but share the same concerns as my colleague, Deputy Collins, about the particular motion. I welcome Sinn Féin's work on this and the opportunity to speak on it. If we take any report, such as the Housing Commission report, they ask for a reset of policy. We have never discussed this. I will take more recent reports, such as the report from...

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

Mattie McGrath: Sinn Féin brought forward this motion. To be honest, and this has been the discussion of late, the people out in the country are confused because Sinn Féin has been backing this Government on literally everything it has done. I refer to the crony initiatives that were done. While its Deputies get up every two weeks and shout about housing, they have never built a house. I do not...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: In debates here about housing, I have several times asked the Government to afford the same concessions to our people as it is giving to Ukrainians. It is giving €800 tax-free to landlords housing Ukrainians. What hope do Irish and Kerry people have of getting a house to rent when that concession is being offered to the Ukrainian people? What is good for the goose is good for the...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: While I always welcome a debate here on housing, this motion is being brought forward by Sinn Féin, which has more serial objectors than people would have cornflakes in the morning. It is ridiculous that people are using their positions as parliamentarians to object not to one or two houses but, in many cases, to thousands of planning permissions. This has been done by those elected to...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: It is one TD. It is not normal, right nor logical. I call it out for what it is. You cannot be an objector to and a proposer of building houses. You cannot make an omelette without cracking an egg, and here we have this type of ridiculous behaviour. I will call it out, whether it is being done by Sinn Féin or anyone else who comes in here. We have another Deputy who is not here...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: She would not build a henhouse.

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Exactly. The same person would fail to build a henhouse. At the same time, she is saying that a million houses will be built if she is in government. For God's sake. The rubbish we have to listen to here about housing is frightening. At the same time, I will make things very simple. If we do not build more local authority houses, we are going to fail the people. One thing that is...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Tell the people the bloody truth and give up the codding with these figures.

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

Michael Collins: We have 14,400 people who are homeless. We have 4,419 children who are homeless. Is this not some legacy to leave just before the Government members knock on the doors of the people of this country to tell them what a good job they have done? My God, they have failed the Irish people miserably. If it comes down to the people in the cities, yes, but look at the people in the country areas....

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

Peadar Tóibín: Housing is the biggest single failure of the Government without a shadow of a doubt. Statistics released to Aontú under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that 400 people have died homeless on the streets of Dublin since 2018. This is a shocking figure. An average of ten people were dying on the streets of Dublin in homelessness in the latter months of last year. We know that...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The Social Democrats will support the motion even though our affordable housing plan, Homes Within Reach, has a number of key differences from what Sinn Féin is putting forward. Every day I campaign in my constituency, I meet people who are directly affected by the housing crisis, people who have been homeless and are afraid of becoming homeless again, renters afraid of becoming...

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

Darragh O'Brien: It is their motion.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is their motion. I did not interrupt the Minister, but he is interrupting me.

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

Darragh O'Brien: In fairness, you did not.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There was not a word about what else will be done or needs to be done on affordable housing. There was a 90-second, or thereabouts, defence of the Minister's record on it. Disappointingly, there was no discussion of the challenges we face in delivering more affordable housing, as is needed. Before I was elected to this House and when I was first elected, I imagined in my naivety that in...