Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

It does connect. I am not playing fast and loose. Is this how to get good value for public expenditure? As we are losing 13% of local authority staff as a result of the recruitment embargo and, therefore, no longer have people to do the direct build of social housing, social housing must be provided by the private sector. Is that not more costly in the end? We get nothing at the end of it.

We are paying money to NAMA or private landlords-----

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