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

I am sorry to hear again of the approved housing bodies. I regard them as the essential cause of the housing crisis, in the sense that reliance on the approved housing bodies is what has left local authority social housing as it is. I cannot for the life of me understand why some effort is not being made. Although I welcome the submission from the Irish League of Credit Unions, it means nothing. We are proceeding down the same course we have been on for the last ten years and it is not solving anything.