Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien
This afternoon.
Via RTE news:
Following discussions at Cabinet this morning, the proportion of rental income, which must be paid under the Fair Deal scheme, will be cut from 80% to 40%.
Up to 8,000 Homes are currently vacant because their owners are in the care of nursing homes.
The Cabinet has heard that around 500 homes pledged by the public have now been passed on to local authorities who will allocate them to people from Ukraine seeking refuge here.
Some 13,000 calls have been made to those who offered accommodation and the aim is to have followed up on all the pledges by the end of the Easter period.
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The Cabinet has heard that around 500 homes pledged by the public have now been passed on to local authorities who will allocate them to people from Ukraine seeking refuge here
And those on the housing waiting lists for years, while rearing families in single hotel rooms- some of whom may be in much more need- can just sit there is it?
That is not fair.
Well, clearly the public did not want to give their houses to those on waiting lists.
Well, maybe if such people were given the same media coverage, they might?
you are correct that such programs should have been implemented much sooner, turning our housing crisis into a mere housing problem. But looking at our government, self-serving amadáns that they are, they couldn’t enact such a plan on their own energy, it’s taken people fleeing a war to flip the switch on their morality and common sense circuits.
Presumably they’re short term let’s to Ukrainians. If you put Irish social housing heads in there you’d never get them out
Pretty sure you presume wrong. Three years is the length quoted, but they have the same rights as EU citizens- which will be extended.
They are here until they choose to leave- if they choose to leave.
That’s the reality
It’s pretty sick our own people passed over
And all those Irish children that are severely scarred mentally simply because their parents cannot afford a roof over their head
So if only 40% of the rental income goes back to the HSE, where does the other 60% go?
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that over 40,000 homes are vacant in Connacht and Donegal.
You’d house a quare few people in them if they were made available to prospective renters. Whether Irish or Ukranian.