Rental Sector
Dail Éireann — 2026-05-19
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Barry Heneghan (IND), Dublin Bay North

If we are trying to increase supply, the grant should be more beneficial when more units are being built. I was a councillor in Dublin city. I understand that the vacant and derelict register need to be updated. I am asking for an urgent review.
Regarding the company ownership restriction on the vacant above the shop grant, the Minister acknowledged, which I welcome, that passive surveillance by people living above shops reduces antisocial behaviour. That would be very beneficial.
People I represent are waiting for these homes. They are my generation. It would be especially good if we could put in, in conjunction with the regulations, encouragements for people in critical jobs such as those working in Beaumont Hospital, gardaí and nurses because those places above the shops across my constituency could house them. The policy needs to catch up to that reality and I am asking for that to happen.
I swayed away from the original question, so I appreciate the leniency.

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Sitting date: 2026-05-19