{"id":1675,"date":"2021-09-13T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/tanaistes-comments-on-housing-spend-are-misleading\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:52:54","slug":"tanaistes-comments-on-housing-spend-are-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/tanaistes-comments-on-housing-spend-are-misleading\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste\u2019s Comments On Housing Spend Are Misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar should clarify the misleading statements he made this morning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar was wrong to suggest the government had listened to advice from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) on increasing funding for housing, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Morning Ireland today, T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar claimed the Government had listened to advice from the ESRI to significantly increase investment in housing. This is simply not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn June, the ESRI called on the Government to double the capital spending on state-provided housing from \u20ac2bn to \u20ac4bn. They set out that it would be prudent for the state to borrow up to \u20ac7bn a year to invest in housing and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total housing budget for 2021 was just over \u20ac3 billion \u2013 \u20ac2 billion in capital spend and \u20ac1 billion current. Housing for All allocates \u20ac12bn in direct exchequer funding over the next four years or \u20ac3 billion a year. There is no new money here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHousing for All contains no significant increase in direct exchequer funding over what was already allocated in last year\u2019s budget. Let\u2019s be very clear \u2013 the advice from the ESRI and others has been ignored not followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government should be straight and honest with people about their plans. It is clear they are not following the ESRI\u2019s advice, and they are not going to invest the kind of money required to build the large number of affordable and social houses we so badly need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cT\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar should clarify the misleading statements he made this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>13 September, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar should clarify the misleading statements he made this morning T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar was wrong to suggest the government had listened to advice from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) on increasing funding for housing, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cOn Morning Ireland today, T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar claimed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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