Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Deputy McCormack asked a question yesterday and should go away. We are successfully promoting the provisions I have just mentioned. This is why we are building more than 80,000 houses, four times the rate found in the UK, five times the European rate and a rate which is far higher than the US rate. Our construction sector is healthy, people are buying houses and we are trying to do as much as we can. We will spend €2 billion on social housing this year so the Opposition should not lecture me about our record on social and affordable housing. This Government is doing more than any other Government in the history of this State.

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