{"id":1677,"date":"2021-09-15T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/housing-minister-must-explain-why-he-misled-the-dail\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:31:22","slug":"housing-minister-must-explain-why-he-misled-the-dail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/housing-minister-must-explain-why-he-misled-the-dail\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Minister Must Explain Why He Misled The D\u00e1il"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien must explain why he misled the D\u00e1il regarding one of the central pillars of his new housing plan \u2013 the shared equity scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister previously informed the D\u00e1il that the Central Bank had approved his scheme but we now know this is not the case, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister for Housing has misled people about his shared equity scheme. He claimed the Central Bank had approved this scheme \u2013 we now have confirmation this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn June 24th, the Minister told the D\u00e1il that his proposed scheme been approved by the Central Bank. This claim was repeated by the Minister on RTE\u2019s Prime Time earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the Central Bank has now revealed that the scheme\u2019s potential interaction with mortgage rules is still under consideration and a spokesperson for Minister O\u2019Brien has confirmed the scheme has not received \u201cfinal approval\u201d from the Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Affordable Housing Act, which includes the shared equity scheme, was passed by a substantial majority in the D\u00e1il after the Minister stated that the scheme had been approved by the Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of urgency, the Minister must make a statement in the D\u00e1il on this latest fiasco and explain why he misled the House and the Irish people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>15 September, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien must explain why he misled the D\u00e1il regarding one of the central pillars of his new housing plan \u2013 the shared equity scheme. The Minister previously informed the D\u00e1il that the Central Bank had approved his scheme but we now know this is not the case, according to Social Democrats Housing [&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-1677","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Housing Minister Must Explain Why He Misled The D\u00e1il - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/housing-minister-must-explain-why-he-misled-the-dail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Housing Minister Must Explain Why He Misled The D\u00e1il - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Housing Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien must explain why he misled the D\u00e1il regarding one of the central pillars of his new housing plan \u2013 the shared equity scheme. 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