So, it's a crisis of unprecedented levels in the private
rental market and people are really feeling it and the reason why the
southern community monitors this is the hap payment is the is the payment that
will prevent people coming into homelessness and would support people
out of homelessness and it isn't functioning in the system because the
housing system the rental system isn't working the rental system isn't i know
the housing i know the housing
committee is there they're on the ground they're saying a crisis of
unprecedented proportions in this country eleven years in yeah well first
to mention around the half i know i know the
minister for housing and deeper uh are looking at uh the discretion rate to try
and increase that to 35 percent um and they're all they're also trying to
expect that to be brought in i i i i i assume soon i know that
they're working on it at the moment and he'd obviously have to get the sanction
from deeper to do that um but obviously then as well what they're trying to do
is expand um the rate so you know if for couples to singles so that that would
effectively um secure they're working on that secure their tenancies and prevent
those entering homelessness as well so 11 years in care the message from the
government is we're working on it rents in my constituency
15 in the last year 15
they started off unaffordable they are now way beyond unaffordable well i think
you need to look i think you need to look at the housing minister in northern
ireland when you see the fact that you actually increased rents by 2.7 percent
in in the north and you actually wanted us to freeze rents here which they did
what they did in berlin so we're in this statement legally should take some
responsibility yeah but no you don't
your party is already in government and it actually effectively hasn't changed
anything there were 45 thousands on the social housing list in northern ireland
you haven't exactly been effective either in dealing with that so that's
there's there's a world of difference between how the lists are calculated
here and in the north and uh the junior minister knows that 16 000 homeless in
northern ireland so what we have after 11 years of fine again
okay we've made that we have people to deal with no no i i don't i want to go
back to i want to go i want to i want to address that because what i want to say
is very very simple okay eleven years finagle in government and they have
failed they will fail from the north i mean look at
whilst immediately we have to deal with the hap issue the answer here is to
deliver housing and the minister you can defend it whatever way you like that
this government has not delivered housing it may have delivered more units
on paper but there are units that people don't want there are units that are
delivered and bought and purchased by cocoa funds which does nothing for the
homeless we have the same situation in westwood we now have a planning policy
that may see apartments built apartments that people do not want to live in and i
think it's the planning policy that the minister is refusing to tackle that is
holding up the actual building of houses all over the country and until such time
as he tackles the basis and fundamental issues we're not going to see housing
increased and that is one of the main reasons i will be voting against
government when the in the no conference location but you know um louise uh thank
you for watching you're not going to win this motion tomorrow i think it's quite
clear there from the um uh the numbers that daniel just outlined
so you know i what are you actually really
trying to achieve by this you mean you were meant to be debating a housing
motion tomorrow is that not what the opposition should be doing rather than
you know coming up with these motions that they know are going to fail and
that is perhaps a waste of time it's not a waste of time democratic
accountability is never a waste of time and the minister and our journalists
might be allergic to accountability which is not uh it is our job as a lead
party of opposition to hold the government to account and we will do
that but are you not going to delay you know delay possible interventions by
this government if you did succeed on top of the government brought them down
had a general election delay intervention
that there's a lot of legislation in the videos
of this party in government
sorry ladies daniel has this exposed fault lines within the coalition well i
i think what's happened here is you've almost had a conflation of the no
confidence motion and that backbench meeting with fienna faulty tds which and
senators which did kind of articulate on unhappiness about their identity about
their position in government and their relationship with their colleagues
because one of the key criticisms that i heard of was a lot of the senators were
annoyed that the phoenix senators were chipping away at fianna fall ministers
constantly like dara o'brien and stephen donnelly in particular saying that
they're constantly undermining them and having to go with them on the record of
the floor of the shannon whether or not they should responding kind i think what
we've seen so far is a government has been relatively stable but i think the
move the sooner the closer we get to kind of the next election cycle that
morale is wavering is it right i just i get that sense that you know they're
figuring out we might be okay in government but how do we then go back to
the electorate and be rivals again and that issue i think is sitting
uncomfortably we've also had i suppose the the clearing up of the leo of riker
issue and i think the reality is beginning to hone in that the closer we
get to december he gets stronger and finite fall notwithstanding being in
government in the theatrics office the last two and a half years have very
little to show for us
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