Housing Provision
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-06
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Catherine Connolly (IND), Galway West

We have a report. After that statement, clarity left the room. There will be further negotiation and the Minister of State is going to go back to the task force. When am I going to see a copy of the report? The purpose of the task force was to analyse the problem in Galway. Let me read from the minutes of the most recent task force meeting, where it was stated that emergency accommodation is non-existent, that services are under extreme pressure and there is currently a waiting list for services. This is about homelessness. Rents are rising by 19%. The average rent in Galway is up 19.4%. There are no homeless services, there is a task force that has not reported and there is a report now. When am I going to see that? Has an analysis been done? The councils are behind their targets for social housing. The task force acknowledged that. I am looking here at rents rising. The Simon Community is telling us there is no availability under HAP and the Minister of State is telling me I am going to get a report sometime in the future. He cited Cork. Was a report produced under the task force in Cork?

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Sitting date: 2023-07-06