Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate on housing. The Deputies opposite must be living on a different planet because there is no housing crisis where I live in County Laois. I was stunned to hear them talk about a housing crisis. In the past ten years alone, 500,000 new houses have been built. New house completions for last year and this year are in the order of 77,000. It beggars belief how any Deputy could talk about a lack of housing. Are some Deputies suggesting that 100,000 houses should be built per annum? The number of houses being built is unheard of——

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