Simon Harris is following in the long tradition of this Government\u2019s Taoisigh making promises that they cannot deliver, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n
Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s housing spokesperson, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new Taoiseach made big and bold promises of 50,000 homes a year during the recent Fine Gael Ard Fheis \u2013 clearly more concerned about a soundbite than how he would actually deliver on this commitment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn\u2019t taken long for the row back on these promises to begin, with Simon Harris now claiming the 250,000 figure is \u2018roughly where I expect the landing zone to be\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Taoiseach is finally facing up to the reality that the Government he is leading is incapable of getting to grips with the housing crisis and unable to deliver on its promises.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Government has failed to deliver 9,527 social homes they have promised since taking office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe delivery of affordable housing has been even worse. The new \u2018Housing for All\u2019 progress report boasts that \u20182,500 social, affordable purchase and cost rental homes have now either been delivered, contracted or recommended to proceed to procurement\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnsurprisingly there is no mention that this Government had promised 9,600 affordable homes, which should have been signed, sealed and delivered in the last two years alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeanwhile, the Government has failed to spend over \u20ac1 billion of its capital housing budget since taking office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the facts missing from the spin-laden \u2018Housing for All\u2019 update.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new Taoiseach, new big promises, but same failure to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n
April 24, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simon Harris is following in the long tradition of this Government\u2019s Taoisigh making promises that they cannot deliver, according to Social Democrats TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan. Deputy O\u2019Callaghan, who is the party\u2019s housing spokesperson, said: \u201cThe new Taoiseach made big and bold promises of 50,000 homes a year during the recent Fine Gael Ard Fheis \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n