Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government parties contend the shared equity loan scheme was introduced to increase supply. I have friends and family in Australia and right across the world but if the country had not introduced austerity measures, those workers would be here and we would not have such an issue with supply because we would have workers to build houses.

In Cork there are projects at a standstill because they do not have the workers. How many apprenticeship schemes have been rolled out? The Government wants to use the shared equity scheme to increase supply but we need apprentices and workers to build houses. People, and not shared equity schemes, build these houses.