I was grimly amused by the Taoiseach's suggestion earlier today that he was calling for a housing debate.
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We have been asking every week since the publication of the 250-page Housing Commission report - commissioned by the Government - for a debate on that report and the Government has run away from it every single week for nine months, and again this week. Can we finally have the debate the Taoiseach says he wants on the Housing Commission report that the Government published? Of course, we know he does not want to debate it because it tells the truth about the Government's failed housing policy, how its targets are completely inadequate, and it is not able to meet the targets anyway.
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How do you know? You will not debate it.
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You have been saying that for nine months. Nine months you have been saying it for.
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Talk about untruths.
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But you do not turn up for those debates.
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We want the Minister to come in and talk about the Housing Commission.
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It is your report.
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The Taoiseach said earlier he cared about workers. Where is this Government's respect for 27,000 section 39 workers who look after the disabled, elderly and vulnerable and who still have not received the 8% pay rise agreed in the WRC and who still do not have the parity that was promised with workers employed directly by the health service? I was talking this morning to home care workers who are section 39 workers. They work in Ballymun with the vulnerable, people with dementia and people with disabilities. Some of them are getting a lesser hourly rate, and they are low-paid workers, than they were getting in 2008 when the austerity cuts were imposed on them. They have never had their pay restored. They have never got cost-of-living increases and they still have not got their 8%. What sort of respect is the Taoiseach's Government showing for 27,000 section 39 workers by not ensuring they get the pay increases they deserve?
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