Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

The Minister is not listening and he is not hearing. He does not understand what it feels like for people in their 20s, 30s or even 40s who have been forced to move back into their parents’ house and are now living in the box room when the Department of housing shares a video saying that maybe they should do the dishes when they are at home so they will be seen as an adult.
Can the Minister understand how hurtful that is or the lack of hope that is out there? When I was in my 20s I was married, I built my house and I had my first two children. There is an entire generation out there whose lives are on hold or, worse still, an entire generation out there who are no longer here because they have lost hope. They have lost hope under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael because they see that house prices are runaway prices, they see what the Government is doing with rents and that it is going to push them up further, and they see that home ownership has collapsed. They have given up. Does the Minister, Deputy Chambers, accept that the Department of housing releasing that video, sharing that video, was hurtful to so many people who, under the Government's policies, have been forced to move back into their parents' box room?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09