Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-07
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

There have been some positive measures taken in the face of the health emergency, such as freezing rent increases and stopping evictions, something the Minister previously said could not be done, and some decongregation of emergency hubs and allocations. Why could it not have been done before if it can be done now? Is it going to be permanent for those people? Will people who have been given welcome own-door accommodation stay in that once the pandemic is over? I really thought about this today when I saw a really obnoxious video about the tale of two Covids in this country when it comes to housing, a video of Johnny Ronan, a Celtic tiger property developer who got all his NAMA land back from us and whose name is plastered over development sites all over this city who is making an absolute fortune-----

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Sitting date: 2020-05-07