Housing for All: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-28
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Richard Bruton (FG), Dublin Bay North

Under this plan it will double again. Some 48% of all housing built in the next decade will be either social or affordable. That is in the plan. This is not relying on the private sector. This is driving a housing sector, both private and public, to deliver for ordinary people. To try to portray it as some type of attempt to get into cahoots with private developers to hoodwink people is simply not the case.
I looked at the housing pipeline in my constituency. It will be of interest to people that 11,500 homes are in the pipeline in the constituency, just one part of Dublin. That will be a 20% increase in the number of homes in the constituency, if they are developed. One can ask how many of them are coming from a Sinn Féin controlled council. It is only 10%. The reality is that 32% of the private ones are on-site, which is not enough, but only 15% of the public ones are on-site. On top of that, Sinn Féin and others blocked an 853-unit housing project-----

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Sitting date: 2021-09-28