Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy's main question was what we were doing to control prices. We are trying to encourage supply because with the current situation that is the only real solution. We are talking about a situation where 70,000 extra people came to this country last year. A total of 90,000 extra people were at work last year. We would not see that in a country 20 times the size of Ireland, not to mind anywhere else.

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