Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-20
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Cian O'Callaghan (SD), Dublin Bay North

I raise the issue of NAMA and the sale of homes to investment funds. Building defects do not explain why the homes in question - 26 apartments - were left empty for almost a decade. They do not explain the length of time involved. It should not take so long.
The Government is not meeting its target for the delivery of cost-rental and affordable homes. The target is so far off that the Government did not even publish information on it in the report on Housing for All released today. NAMA has almost €2 billion in reserves and holds 577 ha. That is enough land on which to build approximately 80,000 homes. Why is NAMA selling off homes to investment funds? Will the Government direct NAMA to prioritise cost-rental and affordable social homes?

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Sitting date: 2021-10-20