Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am not living in any bubble. I represent a constituency that is directly affected by the pressures Deputy Doherty is referring to. I have never suggested that our housing difficulties are caused by the war or the pandemic. I have made the case that fixing them over the last numbers of years has been affected by those developments. It has been affected by the fact that the construction sector had to be closed down to protect the health of the country.