Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

——overnight to every household in need of housing makes a mockery of the financial process that Ireland Inc. must go through. Itmakes a mockery of the need to balance the books at the end of the day. My view is that we should increase housing output. Many people on the Deputy's side of the House have pointed out the number of people joining the live register who have come from the construction sector.

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