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Housing Minister on why delivering housing is so hard: “Over the last number of years we’ve made a lot of decisions that I think were very good in isolation with really good intentions, but when you add them up, what we’ve actually done is tied ourselves in regulatory knots.”
It was recently revealed that the OPW’s modular homes for Ukrainians had doubled in cost from €200k to €436k. Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said that this doubling in cost “frustrates” him, adding that ‘lessons should be learned’. Question by Ben Scallan.
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“For ten years we’ve had homelessness…why didn’t they provide hotels like they did for refugees?” A man who claims he’s been on hunger strike for 24 days outside the GPO speaks on his demands to the government. #gript
“I wasn’t wrong”: Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien doubles down on his “no cap” policy for Ukrainian refugees, even as the government warns that some may end up homeless due to lack of accommodation.
“I HIT A NERVE”: Carol Nolan TD speaks on her immigration clash with Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien in the Dáil, dubbing the Minister’s response “a disgrace.”
More than 15,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland to date, and emergency accommodation is reportedly soon set to be exhausted at the current rate of arrival. According to BreakingNews.ie, the government has been informed that emergency accommodation will be depleted within weeks, and authorities will have to begin setting up tents, prefabs and modular […]
When former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy came out in support of “co-living” apartment developments, he was not surprisingly subjected to widespread criticism. The notion that people would be paying high rents and not even be guaranteed their own cooking and bathroom facilities invited comparisons to older, but cheaper, tenement accommodation. The backlash convinced his successor […]
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