A constitutional right to housing would permanently propel the State to sustainable housing policies designed to ensure access for all to secure housing. The Programme for Government: Our Shared Future commits to establishing a commission on housing to examine the issues around housing such as tenure, standards and sustainability in the provision of housing and to holding a referendum on housing. Creating a right to housing does not only create a right to housing.
We should have seen the building of housing, including affordable housing. By public housing I mean social housing, affordable cost-rental, which Sinn Féin has long supported, and affordable cost-purchase, all on public land and delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies and community housing trusts.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Fintan Warfield and Paul Gavan; Níl, Senators Lisa Chambers and Seán Kyne.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 24–12 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 5–26 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2021-06-04, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.