Niall Collins

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299 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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a clear and a certain environment for investors to come into Ireland to provide the private equity and the private finance to build housing.

Because the Department of Finance will tell us quite clearly, we need to build 60,000 houses per year.

We are putting in 9 billion euros per year of state funding, which is significant funding.

And in order to build the 60,000 houses, we need 20 billion euros in funding.

And that 11 billion has to come from the private sector.

And Rory never speaks.

The Social Democrats will never tell you where is the private investment going.

Well, what's not sustainable is uncertainty in the whole rental sector.

And when you have uncertainty, nobody is going to invest and people will exit the sector, landlords will exit the sector.

And when you have landlords exiting the sector, obviously you have less supply and that drives, obviously, the rent numbers up.

Well, what I accept is that we've had a major fundamental change in policy.

We've had to do it because the model was broken.

Rents were spiralling out of control prior to this in any event.

Well, what we're seeing now is that the supply is being ramped up.

The pipeline is delivering.

We had 36 in excess of 36,000 new housing units delivered last year.

That was an increase of 20% on the previous year.

We've seen the commencement notices for quarter one of 2026 were up 184%.

So that is very, very positive.

And that's how we fix this.

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