8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [38897/26]

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I asked the Taoiseach about what I consider to be the absolutely disgraceful decision of DLR Properties, which is a corporate subsidiary of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, to put up for sale land zoned for more than 1,000 houses. We could have more than 1,000 social and affordable homes but instead a board, which is not accountable to the elected representatives on Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or to the public but is populated by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael councillors, has decided to sell off public land. I asked the Taoiseach about it last week. I would like to know because this is disgraceful. I thought all publicly-owned land that could be available for social and affordable housing was supposed to be made available, for example, to the LDA. The idea that it is being sold off to private developers who are then going to build housing that nobody can afford is a scandal.

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Why are we selling it?

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A thousand homes.

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The elected councillors did not decide this.

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A decade.

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Happy days.

Sentiment score: 0.57

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [38898/26]

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Tomorrow, there is another protest by Northside Home Care Services workers who have been engaging in a series of one-day protests and strikes over the fact that they did not benefit from the pay increases arising from the section 39 Workplace Relations Commission decision on pay restoration. Many of these workers used to be paid on a par with HSE workers. Now, they are on rates barely above the minimum wage. There are thousands of them. This is one group of 80. Their shop steward has been disciplined because of their engagement in the process and suspended.

Sentiment score: -0.08

By the not-for-profit company that provides services to the HSE. I met some of these other workers, doing the same thing. There are thousands of these people, all across the country, on poverty pay rates, who did not get the pay increase that other section 39 workers got. They are very angry and it is not fair. There should not be pay apartheid for home care workers.

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There are a lot more affected than just those 80 workers.

Sentiment score: -0.22