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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...

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

Pat Buckley: I listened to the Minister's response. From this side of the House, I say Sinn Féin will move heaven and earth to fix the housing crisis. He mentioned shared equity. All I will say about that is that we should look at what happened in the UK when the Government came to collect the tab with the number of suicides. It is a dangerous thing. What have we got from the Government? We...

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

Seán Crowe: The housing crisis is a major factor in the difficulties we have in providing public services. Young teachers, gardaí, nurses and workers of all persuasions cannot afford to live remotely close to their places of employment. A teacher or nurse in my area might live an hour or hours away. How can we make life in the public service appealing when we make such a basic necessity as a roof...

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

Dessie Ellis: In a major homelessness and housing crisis, the Government has put forward a solution to these chronic problems by putting in place a scheme that is restrictive in its design and prevents the family home from being passed on to children. If the Minister had an opportunity to develop a policy or scheme to tackle the housing crisis, in particular the general lack of affordable housing, why did...

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

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Ó Broin of Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. When it comes to housing as a public good, the Labour Party believes in three pillars of a housing system that will work for all. The first is social and truly affordable housing, the second is security of tenure for renters, and the third is a truly ambitious home building programme. The marker for us of the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not true. That is absolutely not correct.