Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

How much time does the Minister of State want? He has had more than nine years to do it, but he has doubled the number of people on council waiting lists in that time. House prices are three or four times what they were when the Government came into office and working families on two incomes cannot afford to buy houses they could have bought on one income then. How much time does the Minister of State need to solve the housing needs of the people? How much time does the Government deserve from people on council waiting lists, who cannot afford to buy their own home or who are driven further out into the commuter belt? How long will it be before Part V delivers what the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, predicted it would deliver?

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