Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-31
============================================================

Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

As I said in response to an earlier question, the Housing for All strategy is the right strategy in light of what we will need to do because of the refugee crisis, but we will need to accelerate some of the measures. We cannot make home ownership an impossible ambition for people in our country, particularly in areas such as my own constituency, where houses are probably the most expensive in the country. I want to see my children grow up in the same area where I grew up. It is an area we know and is our home. That does not preclude the need for cost rental housing. It does not lessen the need for the shift to new innovative ways of doing housing. The Housing for All strategy does that, but as I said earlier, the emergency we face in terms of the refugee issue is going to force us to accelerate some of its measures. They are the right measures; we just need to deliver them quicker.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-03-31/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:19+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-03-31