Eoin Ó Broin

When will we get the funding?

When will we get the funding?

I would be more than happy to commend the Minister and welcome an actual announcement on the actual date the funding is going to be released. I would even write him a personal letter of thanks on behalf of my constituents. The problem is that he took a decision to delay a vital piece of public transport infrastructure for five years on a commitment given by his predecessor. Those are the facts. Ye…

Unless they are factually accurate, which they are.

As we all have. When will it get the funding?

He will not answer the question. He has 27 seconds. When will the NTA get the money?

When will the NTA get the money? It is a simple question.

No answers, as usual, Minister.

That was not the question.

We do not have 60% of BusConnects.

Where is BusConnects?

I will be coming back in shortly. The Minster of State need not worry.

It is not the vast majority.

Slowly.

I thank the Minister of State. I thank the officials from the Department of housing for the two very detailed briefings they gave us on Monday and Tuesday and for the follow-on assistance they have given us to try to get our heads around this complex legislation in a very short time. The central proposition of this Bill is twofold. One is to take the existing eligibility rules for people to acces…

Hear, hear.

It did not recommend that.

At least I do not misrepresent the Housing Commission's report, as the Taoiseach has done.

Be honest about the commission's report.

Not for this reform.

When?

Will it be in three years, four years or six years?

No, there are not. That is not true.

We have rising rents, rising house prices and rising homelessness.

What is unacceptable is 7,000 children in emergency accommodation.