Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Before Rebuilding Ireland, child homelessness was increasing at a rate of 5%. It is now at 1%. Some 15,000 first-time buyers are out of the rental trap through the help-to-buy scheme. Senator Leyden did not refer to that, nor did he comment on the fact that supply is up 25% and that 64,000 new social houses are being built. He did not refer to Rebuilding Ireland. An additional 30,000 planning permissions were granted last year, one in three of which was for social housing, to which, again, the Senator did not refer. Nor did he make reference to the fact that never before in the history of the State has more social housing be built than is being built under this Government.