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Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien TD: “A matter of moral urgency” Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD published his Affordable Housing Bill with Cabinet approval on 4 May 2021, as news broke that a global investment company had block purchased most of a new housing development in Maynooth. The result was an instantaneous revival of intense media and public scrutiny of the ongoing housing crisis. Speaking with Ciarán Galway, the Minister discusses his legislative priorities, first time buyers and ambition.
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To what extent have successive governments failed ‘generation rent’ and ‘generation stuck at home’?
home at the very heart of housing policy.
This Government have put delivery,
time buyer by almost a decade to 35
affordability and the chance to own your
years of age. Ireland has dropped from a
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But it’s clear we have an ongoing affordability crisis. It has reduced home ownership rates to historic lows. It has increased the age of the average first
world leader to below the EU average rate of home ownership. A generation is caught in an unaffordable rent trap, and as Housing Minister I’m committed to finding genuine solutions to help those people. There are five main aspects to the
