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

I would like to ask all the witnesses what they think. It seems we have a problem or we could be reaching the point at which we have a serious problem with labour shortages in a number of key areas. I would like to hear what the witnesses think about this. I would have thought that one thing we absolutely must support - they probably agree with this - is the provision of affordable housing. Many of our young people will leave or are already leaving.

I will make one last point on the social housing side of things. Do the witnesses agree that expenditure on the housing assistance payment, HAP, rent allowance payments and so on rather than the direct provision of public housing is very badly misplaced? Although the Government talks a great deal about-----