Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I point out a simple fact: it takes quite some time to build a house. We need to use methods such as leasing in the short term in order to provide houses next year for people who are on the waiting list. We are starting a construction programme. We have finally stabilised the spending and are starting to increase the spending, which is quite an achievement, considering that we are coming out of an economic emergency where capital budgets over the past five years have had to be cut because of a previous Government's actions and neglect of our country.

We are now nearing the end of it and are coming out of the bailout. We have stabilised the funding. We have got some stimulus money and with the assistance of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform we are again starting a general construction programme, as many Deputies have called for.

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