Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

It reads like a sick joke for any of the 43,000 people in question and their families, more than 130,000 citizens who are waiting to be properly housed in the State. It is an indictment of the Taoiseach and his Government's failure to recognise their primary responsibility to the ordinary citizens and not the interests of the developer class. Will the Taoiseach reverse the amendment of December 2002 and return to the intent announced by the then Minister in 1999?

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