Thus, after years and years of promises from successive governments that we are going to get affordable housing through a plan for affordable housing and an affordable housing Bill, we get a Bill in which many of the key issues are bounced back to the Minister to be done by regulation afterwards. In this legislation we want something that guarantees affordable housing that is actually affordable for the working families who are facing a housing crisis, because housing is not affordable.
There will be 10% affordable housing along with 10% social housing. There is a need to ensure that in the Affordable Housing Bill, of all places, we do everything we can to make sure that the dynamics of profit-seeking do not end up making affordable housing unaffordable or in any other way mess up the objective of delivering that affordable housing.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cian O'Callaghan and Richard Boyd Barrett; Níl, Deputies Brendan Griffin and Jack Chambers.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 101–8 |
| Question put: | Carried | 68–44 |
| Question put: | Carried | 66–43 |
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