Eoin Ó Broin
@EOBroin
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Sinn Fein T.D. for Dub Mid-West. Spox on Housing, Local Govt & Heritage. Author of 5 books inc The Dignity of Everyday Life, Celebrating Michael Scott's Busáras
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At a time when so many people have lost their jobs & funding is needed for front line health & care services I cant accept a wage increase.
I am again returning the full post FEMPI pay restoration & increase (€8188.44) to the exchequer. I am paid more than enough.
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Well that was embarrassing. 3 Govt Ministers in chamber didn’t vote for Govt amendment to SF motion on affordable housing. Nor did they vote against the SF motion.
So our proposal to double capital investment to deliver 20,000 homes to meet social & affordable need passed!
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Huge thanks to
@Beaumont_Dublin
staff
A day in A&E, 2 in the stroke ward
All good
Doctors, nurses, care assistants, porters & cleaners. From Ireland, Africa, India, Philippines, America’s & EU
Treating sick & scared patients with care & compassion
These are the real patriots
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I have written to the Presidents of UCD, DCU, NUIG, NUM, UL, TCD & UCC requesting meetings to discuss proposed on-campus student rent increases. High rents are a barrier to education. There has to be a better solution to financing of student accommodation.
@TheUSI
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What happened last night in
#SandwithStreet
is an outrage.
This is racism pure & simple.
Burning the tents of homeless people who have come to Ireland seeking international protection.
This is not who we are as a people. We are better than this.
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The Dáil just voted down
@sinnfeinireland
3 year ban on rent increases bill by 83 votes to 60
@fiannafailparty
@FineGael
&
@greenparty_ie
& Regional Independent’s voted against the ban
So when you get your next rent hike you know who to blame.
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FF are proposing 100 year social housing leases!
Average annual cost of 25 year leases is €8k
So FF want to pay c€800k to lease a house from a private developer that they could build for €234k
Little wonder FF bankrupted the state when last in power!
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Antonio, 83 yrs old went to vote at 7am. Was attacked by police at 9am. Still waiting to vote six hours later. Says 'Worse than Franco'.
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This from journalist who didn’t bother to attend the actual press conference to ask any questions. I’m for a free press. I believe office seekers should be scrutinised. But I also think journalists should do the job they are paid for. Next time turn up John.
#Scarlet4Ya
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Today I signed my annual salary increase waiver returning €9443.95 back to the exchequer in 2021.
This is the total value of recent pay restoration & increments for this year. TDs are overpaid as it is. We don’t need this money.
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There it is for all to see.
FF/FG/Greens vote for a TAX BREAK for Cuckoo Funds to reward them for snatching up family homes.
This government has turned their back on people, again.
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I presume the rocket emoji represents skyrocketing rises In house prices & rents after 10 years of
@LeoVaradkar
in Govt.
🚀🇮🇪
ESRI predicting over 11% growth in economy this year
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Words fail me...
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This will be the first budget in the history of the state where private landlords will get more money for rent subsidies than local authorities for building & buying social housing. €806.3m for private landlords vs €789m for Councils.
Fine Gael is providing for a housing budget of €2.63 billion in 2020, an 11% increase on 2019 and the highest investment in housing by any government in a single year.
#rtept
#GE2020
#LookForward
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Could we really be heading for a Govt without FF or FG? Could we finally have a Left led Govt? 7 days to deliver real change.
#TheTimeIsNow
@businessposthq
@REDCResearch
FF 24% (-2)
SF 24% (+4)
FG 21 % (-2)
GP 7% (-1)
Lab 5% (+1)
SD: 3% (-)
S/PBP 1% (-1)
Ind/Otrs 13% (-1)
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Yesterday a US military aircraft landed in Baldonnell airport in my constituency.
I have written to the Minister for Defence asking where this plane was travelling to, whether it was carrying weapons & why was in landing here, in a neutral state.
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Today I published a Bill to ban co-living. Nobody should pay €1300 pm for 12 sqm. That’s the size of a car parking space
Working people need affordable homes not gentrified tenements
Last year Darragh O’Brien described co living as ‘bonkers’. Now he’s Minister he should ban it
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FF/FG/GP have just voted to allow investment funds to continue bulk buy family homes while paying no tax!
Thousands more single people & couples will be denied the chance to own their own home while being forced to pay sky high rents.
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Any TD who asks for such an allowance should hang their head in shame.
Sinn Féin Dublin Mid-West TD Mark Ward said that TDs are “paid more than enough” and said that, if anything, TDs should take a pay cut.
@Wardy1916
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These people aren’t patriots. They are thugs. Connolly & Pearse would be turning in their grave.
Will
@VestIreland
@HealthFreedomIE
@BenGilroy11
etc condemn this?
Solidarity with
@IzzyKamikaze
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Tax rogues like Bono are harming the world’s poorest people | Bono | The Guardian
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Embarrassing stuff from
@LeoVaradkar
here
Not only has he slashed income supports for workers while stripping vital protections from renters
Now he’s pretending he doesn’t know the difference between a devolved executive with limited legal/fiscal powers & a sovereign Govt! 🙄
Limited protections brought in by SF North won’t mean no evictions-just have to give notice to quit.Meanwhile SF South promise ban on evictions.
SF North up rents by 3%. SF South call for 3 year freeze.
Why don’t they do what they say they’re going to do when actually in gov?
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€16,000 bonus for super junior Ministers!!!
Frontline workers are literally putting their lives on the line in the fight against Covid-19.
Meaanwhile FF, FG and Green Party TDs vote for a €16,000 bonus for Super Junior Ministers. Is this the change you voted for?!
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Hi there
@TescoIrl
&
@SuperValuIRL
Could you lower your online spending limit to €30 to facilitate lower income families & pensioners to avail of this vital service. I have had a number of constituents on to me recently asking that I contact you in relation to this.
#Covid19
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Disgraceful! FF/FG/Greens just voted down Sinn Féin's amendments to make sure All homes are protected from vulture funds.
Tonight, this Govt made it clear - it's on the side of vulture funds and leaving ordinary people locked out of home ownership.
#HousingCrisis
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Doing her country, city & community proud…
@rhasidatadeleke
is the very best this of this country.
She makes me proud to be Irish & to be a Dub.
Yup Tallaght!
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Honoured to have been re-elected as a TD for Dublin Mid West along with my great comrade
@Wardy1916
.
To the voters who have put their trust in me I promise not to let you down. It’s time for change, for a better Ireland for all.
#GE2020
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To those criticising SF for holding rallies on Govt formation I have to ask:
What is so wrong about including voters in the conversation? Must our engagement with voters stop after polling day?
If you want to be part of the conversation then come along & help shape the future.
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What’s for dinner in the Ó Broin household tonight asks
@JohnBurnsST
&
@thebrendapower
?
Well oysters/oisre of course!
Support our costal communities & our fishing industry.
Support
@SSI_WHOLESALE
.
Support good food.
@theirishfor
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Having spent years trashing our ideas for universal healthcare, public childcare & large scale public housing delivery, it seems FF/FG will now propose universal healthcare, public childcare & large scale public housing delivery. But wait, SF aren’t fit for Govt!
@ianknoxcartoon
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A bad night for renters. Government has badly let them down.
SF Bill to ban co-living has been defeated by FF/FG/GP.
More gentrified tenement planning applications will follow.
Thanks guys!
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So
@MichealMartinTD
gives the people 2 options. A deal with
@FineGael
or a general election. The
@fiannafailparty
leader seems to have developed a real taste for self sabotage.
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People in housing need dealt a blow tonight
@DarraghOBrienTD
appointed Housing Minister
🚨2016 opposed rent certainty
🚨2016 opposed Focus Ireland amendment
🚨2017 opposed Right to Housing
🚨2018 facilitated failed ‘Housing Budget’
🚨2019 facilitated ‘confidence’ in E Murphy
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‘Throw the tenants in, pack them tight & collect the money, €5k a month on the button’
8 people per house, 1 bathroom, no living room, ‘it’s a little bit cramped but hey that’s not my problem’
This is what
@JoeDoyleD22
thinks of his tenants & the community of Clondalkin.
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Satire is essential to democracy. It doesn’t matter if you agree with the sentiments. Criticising, questioning & lampooning those in power is healthy & should never be shut down. Bravo
@olivercallan
for sticking to your guns (urr... can I say that as a Shinner?)...
Leo Varadkar checks his notes on
#LateLateShow
as Tubridy asks about the latest
#COVID__19
plan.
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New poll conducted by
@Survation
on behalf of
@sinnfeinireland
SF 25%
FF 22%
FG 17%
Lab 6%
PBP 5%
SD 3%
GP 9%
IA 1%
Inds 10%
Otrs 2%.
Poll carried out up to 2nd FEB, sample size 1,074. Margin of error 3%.
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Very positive phone conversation with
@antoabs
of
@AGSI_Ireland
today
I stressed it was not my intention to offend, criticise or drag An Garda Síochána into a political controversy
My intention was solely to highlight the issue of homelessness/evictions & criticise Govt policy
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My head is spinning...
Dec FF votes for a rent freeze
Jan they said it was unconstitutional
Yesterday they put it back on the table
Today the took it off the table
Conclusion? Renters can’t trust FF
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Richard, glad to see you developing an interest in housing. Pity you didn’t have this interest when in Cabinet.
Your comment below is factually incorrect. How about you & I debate these issues in public with an independent chair. I’m ready when you are.
SF is again misusing statistics to bolster its threadbare Housing Policy.
@EOBroin
in the
@IrishTimes
seeks to pretend that the bricks & mortar cost represents the entire cost for a private builder.
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Great to hear
@DarraghOBrienTD
has finally decided to stop running scared of a head to head media debate.
I am available anytime, anywhere should
@RTE_PrimeTime
or
@TonightVMTV
want to arrange a live TV debate with the Minister.
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Only in FFs warped world is gifting public land to private developers to build €400k homes a good idea.
SF Cllrs didn’t vote against housing. They voted against FFs pro developer sweetheart land deals.
We want 100% affordable housing on public land & make no apologies for it!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sinn Féin keeps objecting
While Fianna Fáil builds homes for you
❤️🏠🌹
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“I don’t think anybody really believes that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, who spent the last four years creating a housing and health crisis, are now the right people to try and fix it”
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🚨 COALITION OF SHAME 🚨
FF/FG/GP voted to stand with vulture funds & for sky high rents
They blocked Sinn Féin's plans to
👉🏼 Stop vulture funds buying up family homes
👉🏼Cut rents with a month's rent in your pocket
👉🏼Ban rent increases for 3 years
#Time4Change
#HousingCrisis
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The Dáil must be reconvened. This chaos can not continue.
🚨Taoiseach & Tánaiste row in cabinet
🚨Confusing & contradictory public health announcements
🚨Concern with school reopening plans
🚨Lack of clarity over school transport
🚨Minister, Judge & Govt pols break Covid rules
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Attorney General who advised Government against rent hike freeze is also landlord - Irish Mirror Online
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One of the most dishonest posts on housing I have ever seen.
Most of these are not housing votes. They include controversial rezonings & public land transfers to private interests.
FG & FF created the housing crisis & now their online trolls are trying to blame everyone else!
A non-COVID chart for a change.
Fascinating discovery from
@eoinneylon
here on the voting patterns of Dublin City councillors on housing issues. This is just the 21 votes taken since 2019.
Dublin has an acute housing shortage and the issue will return after the pandemic.
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.
@LeoVaradkar
has been in Govt for 11 years.
During that time house prices, rents & homelessness have risen to record highs.
Gaslighting the locked out generation just shows how out of touch he is.
Only a change of Govt & housing plan will end
@FineGael
housing catastrophe.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he believes that the housing crisis is on the "cusp of changing" with house prices starting to level off or fall |
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Why would
@DarraghOBrienTD
launch a Housing “Progress” Report at the same time as Ryan Tubridy is in front of a Dáil Committee? 🤔
Maybe he’s hoping people wont notice the lack of actual progress on social & affordable housing, tenant-in-situ purchases & homelessness. 🙄
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On election of
@MichealMartinTD
as Taoiseach:
🚨Pretence that FF & FG are different comes to an end
🚨Dáil finally has clear Left-Right divide
🚨FF, so desparate to get into Govt, let FG set the agenda
🚨Liberal Greens have defeated Left Greens
🚨The status quo remains, for now!
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This is not who we are as a people.
We are so much better than this.
We must not tolerate this hatred!
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Any politician who claims that rent at €1200pm & house prices at €310k are affordable for singles earning >€50k & couples <€75k is seriously out of touch. For a Minister for Housing to make such a claim is deeply concerning.
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The Taoiseach says no visitors to your home.
Logic dictates this means no new rental viewings.
The ban on evictions must be reintroduced immediately.
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This demonstrates beyond any doubt that FG don’t understand affordable housing.
In SF’s policy you do own the home. It is your to alter, extend & pass on to your children.
If & when you sell the home it is to another affordable purchaser at the future affordable housing price.
Worth watching. Cllr McManus exposes the snag in SF’s affordable housing policy. Basically, you don’t get to own it
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Two & a half years after the Mullen Park controversy the funds are still at it.
€3000 per month to rent a house that should have been a permanent family home.
The longer FF & FG are in Govt the worse the housing crisis will get.
#Time4Change
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“The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally..”
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As it happens I was actually in the green room when
@DarraghOBrienTD
was being interviewed. 👀👀👀
Darragh O'Brien admits the idea of debating Eoin Ó Broin 'absolutely terrifies' him, revealing he only agreed to appear on Prime Time after Miriam promised to lock Eoin in the green room during his interview.
#Rtept
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This is not true. I gave a door step press briefing on Monday & answered questions from two
@Independent_ie
journalists. Quotes from the press event were published in the following days newspaper.
Eoin Ó Broin told the The Week In Politics he has been happy to answer anybody asking questions about the Sinn Fein Abú database.
This is not true.
He has refused to answer any questions from
@Independent_ie
for more than two weeks.
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Disappointing article & headline from the
@IrishTimes
today, based solely on a FG ‘report’.
SF did not oppose housing on any of these sites. We opposed land transfers to developers as 50%+ of homes on public land would be unaffordable (1/3).
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Why should anyone trust FF/FG to end the housing crisis which they created & for decades perpetuated?
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1st meeting of new
@sinnfeinireland
Dáil team. 37 TDs strong & determined to deliver a Govt for change, to build homes, cut rents, reduce the pension age, stand up to vulture funds & insurance industry & put money back in workers pockets. People want change, it’s time to deliver.
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Couple 'devastated' by notice to leave Westmeath home
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This is truly shocking
That so many EU member states would not support the call for a ceasefire in Gaza is shameful
The EU & it’s member states have lost what ever moral credibility they though they had
History will remember this as a political failure of enormous proportions
EU votes on UN call for Gaza ceasefire:
Yes (8) 🇧🇪 🇮🇪 🇨🇵 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇵🇹 🇸🇮 🇪🇸
Abstention (15) 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 🇸🇪
No (4) 🇦🇹🇭🇷🇨🇿🇭🇺
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Leo Varadkar, lawbreaker: Tánaiste leaked confidential document to friend | by Village Magazine | Oct, 2020 | Medium
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This is what failure looks like! 👇
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Some interesting reading on my way into work this morning. Am I the only one excited by the possibilities opened up for a progressive Government?
#GE2020
has made real change achievable. All we need is ambition & political will.
#Govt4Change
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Feel free to post the link to the
@fiannafailparty
affordable housing plan Darragh. I hear you’ve been working on it for the last 4 years so it should be ready by now!!!
@EOBroin
Looks familiar Eoin???? I wonder where you got the idea??? It's said that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I suppose. Glad to see at last you've come around to the idea of affordable housing, having voted against it in the last Dáil.
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Am I the only one who thinks FG’s recent behaviour smacks of desperation?
Fine Gael research candidates asked how to attack SF -
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2021 was another year of Govt housing policy failure…
🆘 Rising rents
🆘 Rising house prices
🆘 Rising homelessness
🆘 Low social housing delivery
🆘 Almost no affordable housing delivery
No wonder Micheál Martin is so keen to talk about Russia!
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Phenomenal crowd here in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork to hear from
@MaryLouMcDonald
@PearseDoherty
@davidcullinane
& myself & more importantly to tell us what they want from a Govt for change. We are here to listen, learn & put the people at the heart of the Govt negotiations.
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This can not be legal...
@DubCityCouncil
please inspect this property and enforce minimum space & fire safety standards.
Also
@daftmedia
how can you justify advertising & profiting from this kind of add?
Grimmest Dublin property I've seen on Daft for a while.
€1,000 a month for the pleasure of wondering if you can fully open your oven without hitting your bed.
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No... we opposed the sale of public land at half its market value to a developer.
The FF/FG sweetheart will see 60% of the homes on this site sold at unaffordable prices of around €400k.
All of the homes on this site should be genuinely affordable for working people.
Sinn Fein in Fingal have just voted against 1,200 new homes for Donabate as part of a plan that’s been ongoing for years. Social, affordable and private; priced at €270k. Real homes for real people.
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Bought The Lion & The Cobra in 1987
Listened to it repeatedly on the floor in the dark
Beautiful, powerful, intelligent music
From a beautiful, powerful, intelligent human being
It stands up today as it did then
Listen to Sinead’s music tonight to mourn & to celebrate her
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What has Dermot Desmond been reading?
A right to housing
100,000 public homes in 5 years
Affordable homes 4 working people
Integrated housing, transport & amenities
Active land management
Clearly we have won the argument. Now we need a Govt to act!
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This is great news for our city...
Planning policy must deliver sustainable & affordable urban development not developer led vanity projects.
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Shameful! The Government has just voted to allow Vulture Funds to continue to snap up homes from under the noses of workers and families.
This practice cannot continue - enough is enough.
It's time for change!
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I’m always amazed at how ill informed the height/density debate is. My view is that we need to increase density in our cities with mid-rise mixed-use developments & that those developments must be affordable. It is the only way to solve the housing & climate crises together.
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10 years in Govt & FG have not delivered a single affordable home to rent or buy.
Desperate to deflect from his own failure
@LeoVaradkar
resorts to barefaced lies.
It’s time to end the FG sweetheart land deals with big developers & build genuinely affordable homes.
The evidence is really beginning to mount that the Sinn Fein strategy on housing is to make a lot of noise in public, but to frustrate progress on the ground
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No surprise that FF & FG opposed our Ban on Rent Increases Bill last. They have never stood up for renters.
The silence of the
@greenparty_ie
during last nights debate however was deafening. A clear sign that they are abandoning their pre election support for renters.
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The Taoiseach is lying:
🚨SF don’t have the votes to block developments
🚨SF voted for every social housing planning app in Dublin
🚨SF has called for public hosuing investment for decades
FF/FG starved Councils of funding delaying development for years!
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Billy, if you take the time to listen to the interview you will see SF didn’t object to this development.
We proposed a larger development with better use of green space. FF & FG voted it down. Then SF Cllrs voted for the Managers proposal.
Always read beyond the headlines.
Last week
@EOBroin
accused me of lying on
@TodaywithClaire
when I said that he had previously opposed a social & affordable housing development.
He then accused my Party Leader & An Taoiseach of lying in the Dáil.
There’s only one liar in this debate and the proof is ⬇️
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Sinn Féin affordable housing plan promises three-bed homes for €230,000 & rents at less than €900 pm -
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More subsidies for developers? Really? Thats the plan?
Here’s an idea. Why not use the €500m to build genuinely affordable homes to rent & buy.
Even better why not build & buy 20,000 public homes a year to meet social & affordable housing need!
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FF/FG/GP vote to BLOCK SFs Ban on Rent Increases Bill for 12 months.
Rents are sky high but Government thinks it’s OK for them to keep rising.
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I really think that
@MurphyEoghan
has lost it. Young people should be excited about renting crappy bed-sits with strangers for €1300 a month? Has the man any conception of what young people are facing in the rental market in Dublin.
#RaiseTheRoof
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Micheál Martin in total denial about housing, health & cost of living crises in Leaders Questions today.
Like Mr Burns, he is detached from reality, out of touch & out of ideas…
#Time4Change
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