Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-18
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Ivana Bacik (LAB), Dublin Bay South

Public representatives from the Government and Opposition parties have nowhere to tell people to go because there are no homes available in our communities. There are no affordable homes, no homes for rent and no homes for sale. This is the failure of the Taoiseach's Government. It is a testament to the failed policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and of their over-reliance on a private sector and on a market that has patently failed to deliver the homes needed, which the Taoiseach himself has acknowledged. He has acknowledged a current shortfall of 250,000 homes. The Housing Commission has identified the Government's targets as being far too low. The targets it should be setting are closer to 50,000 and 60,000 homes being built per year. Yet all the Taoiseach does is to castigate Opposition parties that are putting forward sensible, ambitious and rational proposals for housing and for delivery of homes that are needed. It is just not good enough to attempt to politically point score-----

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Sitting date: 2023-04-18