Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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He put forward costed ideas on the funding of expenditure. My view is that the proposals he put forward regarding how he would pay for that expenditure would ruin the economy. He is not being profligate, but the ways he has of paying for these policies would devastate job creation and retention in Ireland. That is different from being profligate. To deal with the questions the Deputy puts to me, I note first on the point he makes on the composition of our housing policy that he is incorrect. Up to 2021, we are looking to provide an additional 50,000 social housing homes of which 33,500 will be built, 6,500 will be acquired and 10,000 will be leased. That is the make-up of the figure up to 2021. In relation to why we are using leasing programmes-----