Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A point that needs to be made is that it is not all about the private sector. The truth is we cannot make the private sector build, and rightly so. It should not be compelled. People in the private sector will build when they feel like it. This is why there is a responsibility on the State to provide housing. We cannot depend on an entity such as the private construction sector to supply us with housing when in actual fact it is unfair of us to even try to compel it to build. People will build when they like, as they have always done, and that is fair enough. That is the private sector. It emphasises that if we want to control the housing crisis and the supply of housing, the State has to be prepared to supply more of it. If we want private sector housing to be cheaper, we must stop people banking land.