I acknowledge and congratulate Senator Nicole Ryan on the birth of her little daughter, Réidín.

I remember, back in 2024, when the Dublin city task force was announced with great fanfare. It had ten big moves and one of those was social housing regeneration. That has morphed into the Dublin city regeneration authority.

The CEO of that authority gets a payment of €280,000 per year. I cannot help thinking this is like jobs for the boys. When you look at the community groups that work with regeneration groups, they get zero funding or a very small amount of it. Yesterday at the housing committee, residents and community groups from Pearse House, Oliver Bond and Dolphin House came in to outline the concerns they have. The Pearse House regeneration proposal was cancelled, the Oliver Bond regeneration proposal was cancelled and they cannot meet the Minister, Deputy Browne. He is the invisible housing Minister; he has not been showing up and will not meet with them. He has not met them at all, just like the Glass Bottle housing group in Ringsend. They have not seen or met with him.

The Minister needs to reverse the decision to cancel the regeneration plans for Pearse House and Oliver Bond House. Residents in Pearse House and Oliver Bond House and the inner city deserve better. When you look at the Dublin regeneration authority, the remit is to regenerate the inner city. Most people would say Pearse Street and Oliver Bond House are in the inner city, yet they are not being factored into this new special purpose vehicle. It is just not acceptable. We need the Minister in here, he needs to reverse the decision to cancel the regeneration schemes and he needs to show the residents the respect they deserve to meet with them, to go through alternative plans and reverse the decision to cancel regeneration.