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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister explain why he is charging people purchasing homes under his so-called affordable purchase scheme more than the actual cost of delivering those homes? As he knows, he uses open market value rather than full or all-in development costs. This means that if people want to own their homes outright, they do not just have to pay the full cost that the local authority or Land...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Affordability and the chance to own your own home are at the heart of this Government’s housing policy. Since 2021, over 8,500 housing supports have been delivered through the various measures we have established and are implementing with our delivery partners. Since the launch of Housing for All, close to 1,000 local authority affordable purchase homes at upfront affordable...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course the Minister failed to answer the question. It could be that he does not understand the details of his scheme or it could be he does not want people to know how it works. Let me remind him. For one of the three-bed terraced units in Shanganagh Castle - a scheme he launched so enthusiastically very recently - the full cost if the purchaser wants to own the home outright is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: These schemes are working. We did launch Shanganagh Castle with enthusiasm because it is a wonderful development. I will invite the Deputy to visit Shanganagh Castle to see it because they are real homes, not an illusion of homes, for real people. I confidently predict every one of them will be sold. Households pay what they can afford, although the value of the home may be much higher....

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh, who is sharing with Deputies Carthy and Ó Broin.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: I listened to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and he made clear that he is completely and utterly satisfied with himself and the Government in relation to housing. When we break down what he is satisfied with, we see he is completely satisfied with having more than 14,000 people homeless, of whom over 4,000 are children. The Minister is also completely satisfied that 13,500 adults...

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

Matt Carthy: It is easy in these debates to get lost in the macro figures. I want to bring them down to what this Government's record on housing means for people in my county of Monaghan. There was a housing crisis when this Government was formed as a result of the actions taken previously by the two parties that primarily make it up. Four and a half years ago, when this Government came to office,...

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is well aware that I have been raising the issue of affordable housing schemes and the need to expand them in County Clare. I was pleased that he did expand it to three schemes altogether, one in Shannon and two in Ennis, which is a total of 31 units. I thought that seeking and getting approval from the Minister would be the most difficult obstacle in...

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

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Teachtaí ar fad as páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht thábhachtach seo inniu. Níl mé ag iarraidh agus níl aon suim agam maslaí a thrádáil le haon duine sa Fhreasúra. I do not want to trade insults with anybody. I disagree with a lot of the policies, but I will say that in the case of the proposers,...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been a building contractor all my life and I know to build houses we need infrastructure. The discrimination this Government has against putting infrastructure around this country is evident. All the Government wants to do is build its numbers in Dublin so it can get extra people in the Cabinet, rather than spreading it around the country so other people can get affordable homes....

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

Dara Calleary: They would not serve.

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

Richard O'Donoghue: Why does the Government not?

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

Dara Calleary: They did not have the courage.

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...