Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Approximately eight decent homes could be built for €1 million. A programme of social and affordable homes, even by the logic of the so-called commercial return, for workers on the average industrial wage or even below it would show a return on such an investment, if one wants to put it like that. There is no reason a major programme to build social and affordable homes could not be a so-called commercial activity and therefore come within the provisions.