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

To house people in empty houses to would save us €500 million in rent allowance and generate rental revenue for the State. We should assert control over the banks so they write down the unsustainable mortgages of 160,000 people who are on mortgage relief, for which they have been recapitalised, and dictate their investment and lending policies in order that money starts to go into the economy, which it has not. It is our money that the banks are refusing to invest in the economy.

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