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 this is the human reality of what is happening out there
And this was, as I said last night, I was just so frustrated.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have refused to listen to the opposition, to the people about what is going on in terms of this housing disaster.
And when we look at it, the rent measures that have shown now today, the DAFT report has shown very, very clearly
they have made a disaster into a catastrophe.
And the author of the report, Rona Lyons, makes it very clear that these new rental measures have led to these rent rises, the highest increase in rents in 25 years.
Rents now, and just to give your listeners some context,
Rents in Dublin now, 2,600 a month is the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment.
Well, I suppose our approach is quite different in that, again, and I want to make it very clear, the Social Democrats are not against private investment in housing.
And this kind of is thrown at us in the Dáil by the Taoiseach and others all the time.
That's absolutely untrue.
We actually set out a very clear proposal to harness and use the 160 billion that's private money in people's bank accounts, in deposits,
through a scheme that would be able to leverage it and invest it in housing.
It's called, in France, they have a scheme, a very, very solid savings scheme that's been in place for 100 years that essentially leverages money in bank accounts and then puts it into delivery of affordable housing.
We have put forward that as a very clear proposal.
And also, the type of private investment matters.
We have been very critical that this government has chased this really
expensive, build to rent, institutional investor type private investment, which is charging these huge rents.
And that is not a sustainable model of delivery of housing.
Back to, I want to finish the point I was making, Clare, about the rents.
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