Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

As the Deputy knows full well, intervention in the housing market through various activities was a contributory factor in the country going over the edge. The idea was portrayed that we could continue to provide all the services that the public needed but not pay for them because they would be paid for using the taxes coming in through property speculation. The Deputy states there is no clarity. The Government does not want to run the housing market. I am sure he is not expecting it to intervene-----

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