Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

-----in the areas of the country where there are population increases. We have limited capital resources and a surplus of empty houses. Let us sort out the ownership by all means, but in the meantime we must use the scarce capital resources we have to meet a rising demand that nobody denies. We will have a total of 70,000 additional pupils - 45,000 extra pupils in the primary school system that currently has 500,000 and 25,000 coming into the post-primary sector. That is where capital should go and that is where we will get the economic return in terms of taxes.

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