Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-11-10
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I add my voice to the condolences to Austin Currie's family on his recent passing. It is a sobering thought that the momentous events that propelled him into activism and the civil rights movement that followed in the North started with housing. It is on that question I wish to question the Taoiseach. Today's daft.ie figures are a further indication that the dire situation in unaffordable rents is becoming a catastrophe. It is contributing directly to homelessness and to incredible hardship for people. Will the Taoiseach seriously reconsider the Government's strategy on limiting further increases to 2% or claiming that additional supply will address the problem? During the period of the Celtic tiger, 70,000 to 90,000 houses a year were coming on stream and rents and house prices went up. The idea that unaffordable supply will solve the problem is nonsense.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-10