Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

——it would radically change the situation is nonsense because cash is taken only in approximately 13% of cases. If this Bill aimed to guarantee a greater return from Part V than is being achieved, I might be persuaded to support it but it will not achieve this so the claim is false and hollow. If the Deputies wish to use it as an excuse to have a general discussion on housing that is fine, and maybe that is what we are doing, but let us not pretend that the Bill would significantly increase the output of social housing.

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