Housing Plan: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-03
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Michael Collins (II), Cork South-West

I agree with the speaker across the floor who wanted to put a rocket under Uisce Éireann but I would say that it would take a hell of lot more. Unfortunately, it has been protected long enough by Government. It is a law unto itself right now. There is a massive housing crisis now, not alone in the want of housing but also for the people who have the houses. I hate calling them landlords because they are house owners. The way they are being treated and the way they have spoken to me with worry in the last few weeks about legislation that is coming through here, they have had it. They are running and getting the hell out of the market because we have treated them so badly. We have left them wide open and we need to turn it around. They have no protections. The other day, I spoke to a man in Skibbereen. He has a guy in his house who does not give a damn. He told the man that he would not pay because he knew that he would get a year or a year and a half's grace and he could laugh at the house owner.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-03