Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----as though somehow it would actually help anyone. When it comes to solutions, we largely get utopian populist ones. The latest of these is a promise from the Labour Party to provide a million homes in ten years. When asked how that number was arrived at or how it was realised, the leader of the Labour Party had no answers. When pressed, she took a page straight out of the book of Sinn Féin. "Sure aren’t the Irish great at building things?", she quipped. We have heard that before.

We all know where the figure of 1 million promised new homes came from. It is a round number. That is all, and there was a conference speech to be made. Tesco advertisement 2.0.

See this speech in context