Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-22
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Michael McGrath (FF), Cork South-Central

Deputy Bruton is right to highlight the role that rightsizing or using empty bedrooms around the country can play in meeting current housing needs. There is a balance to be struck. We have to be careful not to introduce any measures whereby people feel they are being forced to sell a home that perhaps they have been in for half a century.
That said, there is merit in examining whether it is possible to have a co-ordinated national approach. In terms of social housing stock, where a family has grown up, the kids have left and there are a number of empty bedrooms, people in some local authority areas have been facilitated in rightsizing. The Deputy is referring to private housing stock, though. We will examine that issue with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-22