Housing is 'not a disaster' - Darragh O'Brien disputes President's comments | Newstalk

"I'm acutely aware of the 10,000 people who are homeless in this country who need a safe and secure home.

"And the good news is on that is that we're delivering more social homes this year than ever - we've the money and the resources to do it"."I know our President very well for a long number of years - he's a person that I respect, that I regard, that I voted for in the last two presidential elections."He is obviously above politics and rightly so - I think he does a very good job.

"We are seeing this year - and I agree with the President on this - he wants the State to be involved in a major way in delivering social housing this year.

Higgins is a disaster.

Higgins thinks the world and his granny can come to live in Ireland AND everyone will have a house. While he has how many of his own?

O'Brien is a disaster

It’s certainly not a disaster for him… it is for the people without homes…

Ex Insurance Salesman disputes housing disaster....we voted for this cabbage...

Are you actually taking the pi$$ DarraghOBrienTD ? I seriously doubt that you are doing anything, but if you are, then please stop, immediately, as you are making things worse 🤬 You should do the honourable thing - resign! fiannafailparty FineGael greenparty_ie

No it's a total disaster and set to worsen for young buyers and those with variable interest rate mortgage. Renters are being discarded.

That man is so far switched actually unhinged from reality CostOfLivingCrisis Homelessness hospitals 100percentRedress Country is purposely been run into any the ground. Throwing insults instead of sorting Something out 'For the people' Resign ElectionTime Fffg need to go

Then he is wrong, its a fucking mess.

We have a bigger problem if he’s in denial!

How can he dispute something when he avoids a debate with other opinions on the matter. As for being grilled by MSM including you're as weak a media as he is a politician 🙄

Oh really in what way is it not a disaster!!!

Darragh.. your not living in the real world!

😂😂😂 what wud he call it so?

It just goes to show how far removed this fcking waste of space is from the task in hand. Disaster is to mild a word to use, it's a humanitarian catastrophe of emmence proportion. Homeless ppl are now dying on the streets in their hundreds.

Easy to say when you own multiple properties

Looks like a disaster unless, he thinks these are houses.

🤣🤣🤣

Another jumped up politician believing his own hype - sorry,I meant tripe. Deaf to the opinions of the people who unfortunately elected them but that can be remedied quickly unlike the mess they’ve left. Well done to President Higgins for calling a spade a spade.

Send him in to a hotel for a few weeks or get him to sleep on a couch in a family members house for a while he's tune would change then

He is right - it isn't a disaster It's a catastrophe

He would

10 + years of basically little or no social houses being built, but because this year they build more than any other year he thinks its great. We need to be breaking that record for the next 10 years then he can spout as much gibberish as he likes

He would probably dispute this house 'is a disaster'

He's made a bollox of this place like the rest of ffg

So Daragh O'Brien is a liar aswell as a failure. Every person in the country knows its an absolute disaster only people that have a vested interest and are making a lot of money from it are denying it

DarraghOBrienTD in the minority I'd say. Disconnected and one example of why gov party ratings are so poor.

It's a disaster for past 30 years in how it's delivery has been arranged by successive governments

Well of course it’s not a disaster if you have a house or two like he does 🤷‍♀️😏

The problem with Darragh is that he doesn't see it as a Disaster

Eh usually if you 'dispute' something you provide examples or evidence show that what was claimed or said isn't true 🤷‍♂️ he didn't dispute anything he's just not willing to admit what everyone knows is true including himself

It's absolutely a disaster in donegal. What a legacy he's leaving!! RightThisTime micaredress

Fine gael celebrating a decade of destruction

A healthy civic society is based on its citizens not feeling alienated and cast adrift by the political class. Sinn Fein get this. Fianna Fail used to. Darragh O'Brien is the personification of the rot in Fianna Fail, as Michael Noonan was in Fine Gael.

He can dispute all he wants, the facts speaks for themselves, it's a total disaster

When is a disaster not a disaster? Try not and dig a bottomless foundation for something you are responsible for as all great politicians the other crowd did it .The truth is if we were foreign nationals or fund managers building for profit we would get more results from governme

No…it’s a RESOUNDING SUCCESS!!!

It's such a disaster that Roland Emmerich is going to make a film about it

TheHardShoulder As is the president,also on more money & landlord to boot. Charging exorbitant rents to young people renting. But hey that doesn't matter.

Darragh O'Brien is a 🛎end

TheHardShoulder Darragh Ò Brien double neck bull dog 🐕 Total recall comes to mind

TheHardShoulder Seriously build a bridge 🌉. You are actually giving out about a highly intelligent man actually telling it as it is . So what they are saying upfront that the president was wrong to tell the people that truth . GO FIGURE THAT BULLSHIT OUT.

TheHardShoulder He would!

TheHardShoulder Darragh needs to pull his finger out. He has Done nothing since elected.

TheHardShoulder Renting is a disaster, Housing in a disaster, Darragh O'Brien is a unfunny joke.

TheHardShoulder It's pretty bad Darragh!!

TheHardShoulder It’s worse than a disaster. It’s FUBAR.

TheHardShoulder Pulling the 'it wasn't a bailout' move like a boss

TheHardShoulder Klaus Schuab 'In 2030 you will own nothing and be happy'. Klaus Schuab is the director of the World Economic Forum or the WEF. The WEF hosts an annual gathering in Davos. This is attended by our leaders, where Elites decide your future.

TheHardShoulder As DarraghOBrienTD goes “home” many of us don’t have that privilege. It’s a shitshow!!!

TheHardShoulder Here chins, DarraghOBrienTD what planet have you been living on to say housing isn't a disaster?

TheHardShoulder Oh yes it is

TheHardShoulder Yes it is. Get off your pedestal and listen to people who live in the real world!

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TheHardShoulder Yeah, but it is

TheHardShoulder He would say that ,cosseted politician on large salary out of touch with ordinary people

TheHardShoulder Because this doesn't at all make the government look out of touch with the reality for ordinary working people

TheHardShoulder Fine Gael will be the big losers in the next GE and their utter, disastrous failure on housing will be why.

TheHardShoulder And white is black. The neck of him

TheHardShoulder Not a disaster if you’re one of the contractors getting 140k handout from DarraghOBrienTD

TheHardShoulder Nope : it looks pretty much like a disaster. It must be a Minster thing. podonovan thinks folks are observing the 30kph limit in phoenixparkopw when they aren’t. Ministering meets JeDi MiNd TRiCks?

TheHardShoulder 12 nil to the president in that match.. A disaster barely covers it...

TheHardShoulder Minister I have met women fleeing domestic violence with children and pregnant confined to a room in a B&B with other room users complaining about children crying. You are correct it is not a disaster it is an abuse of children & adults who deserve human rights to be respected.

TheHardShoulder Ha ha , what a clown ...the Captain of the titanic saying there no problem ha ha

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