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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----on behalf of our citizens. It is the most significant investment that has ever been made in the history of the State. However, we are dealing with a situation of significant under-delivery over a ten-year period and catching up on the pent-up demand. Homelessness and exiting people from it remain the number one focus of me and the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the Minister's claims of success and his promises and commitments, while the Dáil was in recess the human misery resulting from the housing and homelessness crisis continued and escalated. Given that the Housing Commission and now the Central Bank have told us that the Government's plan, Housing for All, provides for approximately half of what is necessary to deal with the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----with no prospect of being able to afford the private rents that are out there.
- Visit of Welsh Delegation (19 Sep 2024)
- Visit of Welsh Delegation (19 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before calling on the Minister to respond, I ask Members to join me in offering céad míle fáilte or croeso to our counterparts from the Welsh Senedd, led by Mr. David Rees, Deputy Presiding Officer for the Senedd. I was delighted to meet him on my visit to the Senedd in March. They have a busy programme of meetings with a number of Oireachtas committees. They are all very...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Cuirim fáilte rompu freisin. I hope they have a successful and fruitful visit. We have discussed and debated in the House and at committee meetings in the past four years the challenges that remain in housing. I have not claimed success, as Deputy Boyd Barrett said at the start; absolutely not. What I have done is to clearly record where progress has been made. Last year, we built...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: Yes, I do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Okay, perhaps she can wait to ask a question and let me answer Deputy Boyd Barrett. On affordable housing, when this Government came into office no affordable homes were offered at all. The Deputy knows that. Last year, 1,757 housing solutions were delivered on affordable housing. This year the figure will be more than 6,000. I am not claiming success or that we have dealt with every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: That is why we have the problem.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: That is why we need a planning system that supports the delivery of the homes and infrastructure we need. That is why I expect Deputies on both sides of the House to support the Planning and Development Bill when it comes back to the House for its final Stages, so we can ensure we have an efficient planning system under which someone from Ballina cannot object to a social housing development...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning on the Shanganagh site, which the Minister will open tomorrow, for 18 years. It has taken us 18 years to develop a public site to deliver 600 social and affordable houses. At that rate, we are facing a grim and long housing crisis. By the way, we still do not know what the price of the affordable housing there will be. There will be 200 social houses. There are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you Deputy. Time is up now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister please do something about the thresholds? People have spent 15, 16 and 17 years on the list and then that time is gone.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I was the first Minister since 2011 to increase the social housing income limits. We increased them all across the country and they remain under review. We need to increase our own stock of social housing. In the four years of this Government, we have been able to do that and to scale up the capacity to deliver. Certainly, there is much more to do. I only used Shanganagh as an example;...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It is nothing of the sort, and the Deputy knows that. I do not know whether the issue of pensions is a matter he discussed when he went to London to meet potential investors in this country recently. This is about acting on an independent report that has come forward. In a very phased way from 2026, the standard funding threshold will be increased. While we are doing that, the Government...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Crumbs. The tax break is €320,000.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: It is not crumbs.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.