Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All of us are motivated to ensure a maximum amount of affordable housing and a maximum supply of housing. The way to do it is to ensure nothing fetters supply and it will be a significant contributor to what makes something affordable or not.

There is an inference in the contributions by Deputy Ó Broin that the criteria for accessing these schemes is an exclusive preserve. Every committee member supported widening and recommending the widening of criteria, including me, to ensure we have maximum accessibility for those who lost their homes due to the financial crash and those who, for a variety of reasons, find themselves, yet again, without homes. We all agreed on that, so to allude to it, or exclaim an exclusive preserve of it in public session, when we were in agreement in private session, is disingenuous.

All of our motivation is to ensure a maximum of housing supply. It is what we need to do and it is why I will not support this amendment.