Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Is the Minister considering shifting this balance? Surely the balance should be the other way around. Even if we accept the Minister's argument that the housing assistance payment is a temporary measure, Rebuilding Ireland does not propose it as a temporary measure. It proposes it as two thirds of the housing plan out to 2020. It is all money out the door with nothing returned in the long term as a State asset. Does the Minister propose to change it?