{"id":11496,"date":"2025-02-07T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:45:24","slug":"desperate-blame-game-in-govt-to-evade-responsibility-for-misleading-the-public-about-housing-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/desperate-blame-game-in-govt-to-evade-responsibility-for-misleading-the-public-about-housing-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate blame game in Govt to evade responsibility for misleading the public about housing delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a matter of urgency, we now need the former housing minister, the Taoiseach and the T\u00e1naiste to appear in the D\u00e1il to answer questions about this fiasco<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There is a desperate blame game in government to evade responsibility for misleading the public about the number of homes that would be delivered last year, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Rory Hearne.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an interview on RTE radio this morning, T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris laid the blame for the government misleading the public on housing figures squarely on the shoulders of former Housing Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste said the three leaders of the last coalition received a letter from the former housing minister, which stated that Ireland would \u201ccome close\u201d to hitting 40,000 homes and said the Minister should not have provided that figure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the T\u00e1naiste is correct that the housing minister should not have inflated the number of homes that were due to be delivered, his reliance on one letter from the Minister to evade his own responsibility for repeatedly regurgitating the figure is not credible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were multiple reports, from respected institutions like the CSO, ESRI and Central Bank, which were warning that housing delivery would be nowhere near 40,000 homes. These reports came after the Minister had written the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fig leaf of the Minister\u2019s letter is no excuse to have made a commitment to deliver 40,000 homes last year a central feature of Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael\u2019s electioneering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is the Taoiseach and the T\u00e1naiste must have been well aware that the number of homes delivered last year would be nowhere near 40,000. This fanciful figure was deliberately used to fool the electorate by falsely claiming the government’s housing plan was working.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of urgency, we now need the former housing minister, the Taoiseach and the T\u00e1naiste to appear in the D\u00e1il to answer questions about this fiasco.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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