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€450m Exchequer boost to provide 3,000 cost rental, affordable and social homes

The Cabinet committee on housing agreed last night to review of the rent pressure zones.

CABINET WILL TODAY sign off on €450 million funding that the government states will deliver 3,000 cost rental, affordable and social homes over three years. 

Over the weekend, The Journal reported that a memo for a substantial funding increase towards the delivery of housing would come alongside last night’s Cabinet committee on housing considering the updated National Planning Framework (NPF). 

The joint memo to be brought to government today by Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Minister for Housing James Browne comes as Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin states that there is actually less money allocated to social and affordable housing this year than last.

Citing the Revised Estimates for 2025, he states the capital allocation for housing was €3.446bn in 2024 and €3.094bn for 2025, a difference of €371m.

Ó Broin said even with today’s announcement government is allocating less capital funding for social and affordable housing in 2025 that it spent in 2024.

“It’s simply not possible to deliver more social and affordable homes with less money,” he said.

The Cabinet memo on the Exchequer funding comes the day after the Taoiseach and Tánaiste and relevant ministers met to discussion solutions to the housing crisis that might appear in the government’s “revised” Housing for All plan.

Following yesterday’s meeting, a join statement from the Taoiseach and Tánaiste confirmed that ministers have been asked to prioritise the delivery of social and starter housing, the Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill, and commencement of a review of the rent pressure zones.

There will also be a focus on the delivery of utilities like water and electricity to service sites for housing development.

The implementation of the Planning and Development Bill and the roll out of Compulsory Purchase Order legislation will also be top of the agenda.

It was also agreed to advance the establishment of the Strategic Housing Activation Office to unblock infrastructure delays. Staff from the main utility providers will be seconded full-time to the unit. 

As reported by The Journal over the weekend, the Cabinet committee on housing also agreed to proceed with the Revised National Planning Framework.

This includes allowing the housing minister to give directions on accelerating spatial planning.

At yesterday’s meeting, there was also discussion on the Rural Wastewater Schemes to ensure that small and medium housing developments can take place across the country.

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    Mute John Fahy
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    Jun 24th 2022, 8:39 AM

    Why is there no video footage from the front line???

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Jun 24th 2022, 8:57 AM

    @John Fahy: there is actually a half decent Instagram page called “realnewsnobullshit” with front line footage uploaded daily.

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    Mute Dave Walsh
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:04 AM

    @John Fahy: There is, but you can imagine there won’t be much of it. Some people aren’t stupid enough to stand out holding their phones up when bombs are dropping. They have more important things on their minds.

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    Mute Wooden Spoon
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:06 AM

    @John Fahy: Go on to reddit and you’ll see plenty on r/combatfootage but if you want Russian footage then download Telegram and find a group called ‘Intel Slava Z’. There’s so much footage out there and it’s easy to find. I don’t understand why people can’t grasp the concept that a war is happening.

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    Mute Pol Mlp
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:07 AM

    @John Fahy: because war is brutal and footage from it can be quite distressing and disturbing to watch..its not like the movies..if you want to see footage you can easily find it on the likes of twitter and reddit among other sites..however most news agencies won’t be showing any footage for obvious reasons

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    Mute Calvin James
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:33 AM

    @John Fahy:
    They’re not letting many journalists near the front, not sure if it’s to keep moral high among the people or that there’s too high a risk of journos getting killed or a bit of both. I’m in Dnipro now and it’s very difficult to go anywhere east from here

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    Mute Tomas Launikonis
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:36 AM

    @John Fahy: go on Telegram. Plenty of videos.

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    Mute John Fahy
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    Jun 24th 2022, 10:45 AM

    @Dave Walsh: is that not the job of journalists and news crews? I grew up during the Vietnam war and there was video footage on the news every day. Something is very suspicious here

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    Mute Calvin James
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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:00 AM

    @John Fahy:
    The war here is very different to Vietnam for journalists, Russia are pounding and destroying everything in front of them with artillery with better range than the Ukrainians and moving forward, artillery is blind, particularly Russian artillery

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:19 AM

    @John Fahy: I believe that the Ukrainian Army asked people to stop sharing videos of their attacks on line as it exposed and revealed their positions. Since I read that somewhere (some time ago) I have noticed a significant reduction in videos – it may or may not be the reason – but it makes sense. Still I am surprised by the lack of footage myself.

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    Mute John Fahy
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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:26 AM

    @Calvin James: Technology exists today to put unmanned cameras in place that transmit footage to a remote location.

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    Mute Calvin James
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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:33 AM

    @Niall Ó Cofaigh:
    This is also true, I got rumbled taking a photo of a mural and had to wait to get questioned by secret police, they informed me that a Turkish ship was docked and took footage of missiles being fired, he shared it and it made MSM in Turkey, Russia destroyed the facility an hour later. As I also explained earlier in the thread it’s an artillery war, you’d be an absolute idiot to be within 15km of the front line with the way the war is being fought

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:40 AM

    @John Fahy:
    Such technology would give away Ukrainian positions

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    Jun 24th 2022, 12:08 PM

    @John Fahy: you will find all you want on VK

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    Jun 24th 2022, 12:25 PM

    @John Fahy: it’s called IPsec

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    Jun 24th 2022, 3:03 PM

    @John Fahy: Goodman John, why don’t you do a bit of freelancing to satisfy your suspicions…

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    Mute Seán
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:11 AM

    Of course, Ukraine’s future is part of the EU. Well the western part anyway as it’ll likely be absorbed into Poland. The southern and eastern will be unlikely to join as they’ll be part of Russia which probably won’t get EU status anytime soon.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:33 AM

    @Seán: wrong Ukraine will get all of its territory back.

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    Mute Darren Murphy
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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:40 AM

    @shligo boyzz: You are living in an alternative world if you really believe that the m.upp.et zelensky will get the territory back,they’re part of russia now, and THEY are not going to give them up as easily as zelensky did.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 9:53 AM

    @Darren Murphy: youre a m0ron if you think ukraine is giving up anything easily

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    Mute shligo boyzz
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    Jun 24th 2022, 10:10 AM

    @Rian Lynch: I can’t wait till all the pro Russian heads on this app are proved wrong.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 10:12 AM

    @shligo boyzz: Like they took back Crimea? They’re retreating from the Donbass currently so exactly when are they going to start this massive counter-offensive? Winter is coming and that means gas bills, Western governments are going to start caring about their own citizens protesting the cost of living crisis and kicking them out of power and less about delivering arms and defeating Russia. That means the west suing for peace, putting an end to the Ukraine crisis and normalizing ties with Russia to some degree.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 10:25 AM

    @Seán: the big counter offensive has started in the south with Kherson that’s more important than anything in the east atm I’m only a armchair general but Russia is weakening they focused 4 fronts into 1 in the east and all they can get is a tiny bit of land. And I’m in no way underestimating Russia they may be stupid but have a numerically advantage in man and equipment. It will be though but I think eventuality get back the pre feb 24th borders and god knows what will happen after that.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:11 AM

    @Seán: who said Crimea is lost. There is already several ukrainian offenses on all though there seems to be no real effort going on to push on with them. Russia has run out of guided weapons and is using inaccurate weapons systems like artillery. They are still making very little progress with some Russian forces turning on their commanders in the dombass region. To say Russia has this won is well wide of the mark. They could win it but on current form it looks like Russian military forces in the east of Ukraine are being destroyed slowly. An analyst I listened to yesterday claimed that the Ukrainian forces are in a position to force Russian forces out of many areas but seem to be holding off. He’s unsure why but thinks the Ukrainians are trying to destroy Russia forces. These places the

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:16 AM

    @Allora: Russians are gaining are not valuable in relation to military strategic positions. They appear to be political assets. Severodonetsk is a city divided in 2 by a river. It appears the Russians are entering the city to be destroyed by the Ukrainians. Its another stalingrad for Russia.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:16 AM

    @Darren Murphy: why are you calling zelensky a muppet? most rational people think he is one of the greatest leaders a country has ever seen. If you’re simply pro-russia and the war, then fair enough, i get it.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:55 AM

    @Darren Murphy: Not sure how fighting for 100 days against a massive assault can be stated as “giving them up easily”

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    Jun 24th 2022, 3:06 PM

    @Darren Murphy: No critic of Putin ? … how odd

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    Jun 24th 2022, 10:04 AM

    The Ukrainians are doing fantastic work; holding the invaders back whilst grinding them into the ground to allow the Kherson offensive to get underway.

    Russia is finished, thankfully.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:29 AM

    @Stephen O’Neill: which Ukrainians are doing fantastic work…… the Nationalists or the Republicans…. if only Zelenskyy had kept his election promises…if only…… none of this would have happened.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:56 AM

    @Fergus Quinlan: which election promises ?

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    Jun 24th 2022, 11:56 AM

    @Fergus Quinlan: Which election promise?
    Because he didnt make overtures to NATO until AFTER the Russian troop buildup along their border.

    NATO military assistance has been ongoing since 2014. Well before Zelensky was elected.

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    Jun 24th 2022, 1:45 PM

    The commies are awake I see

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    Jun 24th 2022, 3:10 PM

    @Fergus Quinlan: Ah Fergus, the man that used an article on the slaughter of 21 kids in Uvalde to push his anti Ukraine/pro Russian agenda (that took some doing I’ll give ya that) ….. a true humanitarian

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    Mute Rory Jennequin
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    Jun 24th 2022, 4:41 PM

    Every week Zelenski sounds more and more like Comical Ali. “We are beating them back”, “They are losing so many men they cannot continue”, “We are holding our ground and will not retreat”

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