Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree progress is necessary in those areas. We have heard from IBEC and other business representative groups and they have spoken in stark terms about how the housing crisis is impacting on their capacity not just to maintain the current situation but in respect of fundamental issues like recruiting and retaining staff. If people cannot afford to live near where they work or within a reasonable commute of where they wish to work, then these are real challenges that people are facing.