Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There was no problem then but there is now. Every decision was to move away from direct provision of social housing and we got what we have. We have an appalling situation where people are at this moment crying because they do not know if they will be in a house tomorrow or not, people with families large and small, unemployed people who are entirely dependent on support from the Department of Social Protection because there are no houses other than the ones from the private rented sector. It is an appalling situation about which we should be duly ashamed.