Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The categorisation of second houses is broad. One cannot infer from the figures that a second house is a house that someone lives in at weekends. Many second houses are bought for investment purposes. In that broad categorisation, the Deputy put forward figures which are probably accurate, but he is including people who have bought houses for investment purposes which are then let out in the market.

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