11. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17124/25]
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The housing crisis is an absolute disaster. The Taoiseach spoke about homelessness earlier. I want to raise this issue. It is very clear from the data that the main cause of homelessness is evictions from the private rental sector. There is no lack of clarity in the figures on that. Some 30,000 households have been evicted since the Government lifted the eviction ban in 2023. However, one of the key measures in response to that is the tenant in situ scheme. I have been contacted by constituents from Dublin North West, including one from Santry, a mother with three children at immediate risk of homelessness. She has lived in her home for the past seven years with her children and is in receipt of the housing assistance payment. We contacted Dublin City Council, which did not mention tenant in situ as one of the responses to this case. It is clear that Dublin City Council and other councils across the country do not have the funding for the tenant in situ scheme to prevent families like this mother and her children from becoming homeless. How does the Government think it is appropriate that we allow this scale of homelessness? Will the Government fund the tenant in situ scheme properly? Does the Government feel it is appropriate that a person who caused homelessness and stood over the evictions of properties - the Taoiseach can raise his eyes to heaven-----
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Do not tell me to get out of it.
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Yes, we can. He was a CEO who oversaw the eviction of thousands of people from NAMA receiver properties. He contributed to the housing crisis. The Government will now appoint him as a housing fixer. The only doors that will be battered down, as the Minister said, will be the doors of people who are facing eviction. It is absolutely inappropriate. The Taoiseach can shake his head. He should shake his head in shame at the level of homelessness in this country and not put his eyes up to heaven about me raising this issue.
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There were one and a half-----
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I am not shouting. I am just-----
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It is not-----
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That is not true, actually. The Taoiseach can take that back.
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The Taoiseach just said I was nothing of the sort. I was an academic in Maynooth. That is-----
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This is the same nonsense. The Taoiseach is trying to take me down. My academic-----
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I am, but I was also an academic in Maynooth. The Taoiseach said I am nothing of the sort of a housing expert.
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The Taoiseach did. He said I was nothing of the sort.
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There is also housing policy. That is an expertise.
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That is part of housing.
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Yes, it does. Housing policy is-----
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The Taoiseach is making derogatory comments.
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