Rory Hearne
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352 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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And what I think the minister needs to do very clearly is say, look, this scheme is open.
It's there where people are willing to.
And that's, you know, as Sean pointed out here, this is about choice.
It is about it's not about pressuring older people, but where you have older people coming to us as TDs in the constituencies, like my own, and Artane Beaumont saying
You know, we we want to downsize, we would go into a smaller council property and the council having to turn around to them say, Sorry, we can't do it because the scheme we don't have the funding.
Like it's completely illogical.
Yeah, and this is a really important issue.
And again, Sean is right in terms of saying, you know, we need to be building the actual units that are that the homes that are needed um for older people because the point is if they're not if they're not there, then where are they actually gonna right size down to?
And one of the big issues that I, you know, I've been banging on about and raising for many years now is this issue of, you know, the main kind of building of new
homes, new apartments in Dublin City um and the wider Dublin area is i've been bought by investor funds, is billed to rent.
And I make the point
um that, you know, during the Celtic Tiger, you know, there was a lot of apartments built, but most of them were sold to, you know, people buying a home and many of them were bought by older people right sizing.
But now there's just not apartments available for sale.
So older people just don't have that option in that way if they they could.
So I think there is a real issue that we need to look at.
um, you know, these big apartment developments, build to rent developments, that why can't there be a certain amount ring fenced for older people, for workers?
Why, you know, there's a real issue that what we're building in our capital city is actually not meeting the needs, the housing needs of both older people, of workers, of families.
And you're right to say in terms of, you know, uh w who will it upset?
It'll probably upset the investor funds.
That are building them, but they need to see that actually the housing needs
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