Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Every single time the Deputy tables a motion here and if I go to respond, all he can do and the choir behind him is continue to interrupt and stop me from speaking but the figures do not lie. Many challenges remain but there has been progress and by the end of this year, we will have delivered more than 100,000 new homes since we came into government. There has been a step-change in delivery in social and affordable housing.

Let us talk about homeownership. Deputy O'Reilly might hide her head because there is another reality too. In the areas where people are buying homes for the first time, 42,500 first-time buyers have accessed the help-to-buy grant. That is their own tax back in their own pocket. It is money they have earned and tax that they have paid to help with their deposit to own their home. It is a very successful intervention in supporting homeownership. The party opposite, even though its leader tried to row back on this earlier in the House-----

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