Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome this opportunity to speak to this singularly important topic. As the previous speaker has outlined, the provision of social housing in Ireland is in a crisis at the moment. We have an unprecedented number of people on the social housing list.

Despite that, the Government, which has been in power for the past three years, has slashed investment in capital expenditure for social housing. Consider Westmeath, the county I represent, where capital expenditure in 2008 was €14.7 million. In 2013, it was €2.1 million.

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