{"id":9363,"date":"2024-11-13T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:35:34","slug":"eoghan-murphy-trashing-fine-gaels-housing-record-is-damning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/eoghan-murphy-trashing-fine-gaels-housing-record-is-damning\/","title":{"rendered":"Eoghan Murphy trashing Fine Gael&#8217;s housing record is damning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for the architects of the housing disaster<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former Fine Gael Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy\u2019s confession that Fine Gael chose not to prioritise the housing disaster is a damning indictment of their shameful record on housing, according to Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an interview in the Business Post today, Mr Murphy states Fine Gael \u201cdidn\u2019t escalate housing to priority number one \u2013 because we didn\u2019t want to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe further states the party \u201cwasn\u2019t radical enough\u2019; his colleagues didn\u2019t have \u201cthe time or energy to help\u201d him and he was left waiting for six months when important legislation had to drafted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Murphy\u2019s assessment of his own, and his party\u2019s, failures is both searingly honest and incredibly stark. While he may have pushed for stronger, more urgent action, he wilted at the first sign of opposition from a party that didn\u2019t really seem to care very much about the deteriorating housing disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFine Gael refused point blank to treat housing like an emergency \u2013 and that was back in 2016. Now, eight years later, we are dealing with an unmitigated disaster that has ruined tens of thousands lives all over the country. Much of that damage could have been avoided if the right decisions were made back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Murphy\u2019s admission, that Fine Gael didn\u2019t prioritise housing and took the wrong policy approach, highlights what is at stake in this election. A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for the architects of the housing disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>13 November, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for the architects of the housing disaster Former Fine Gael Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy\u2019s confession that Fine Gael chose not to prioritise the housing disaster is a damning indictment of their shameful record on housing, according to Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cIn an interview in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9363","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 v27.3 - 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