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- 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.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin's plan should really be called "A Home You Will Never Own".
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We have no proposal to abolish tenant purchase. The Minister is misleading the House.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is misleading the House again.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please let the Minister finish.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Eoin, "misleading the House" should not be a phrase coming out of your mouth.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is because I do not do it, Minister, unlike you.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Funnily enough, despite Sinn Féin's public pronouncements on the Government schemes, I regularly receive parliamentary questions from many of Deputy Ó Broin's colleagues in Sinn Féin asking for enhancements to the schemes they say they will scrap. What this Government has proved is that our plan, Housing for All, now in its third year of implementation, is working in bringing...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It will deliver affordable homes at prices people can actually afford. What is dangerous about that?