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

It would put people back to work. It would genuinely stimulate the economy and it would pay for itself. The Taoiseach knows the maths. We are paying out half a billion a year, €600 million if we include leasing arrangements to private landlords. That money will come back to the State and we would save money by putting construction workers back to work, allowing them to pay tax. We would save huge amounts in social welfare expenditure. Why can the Taoiseach not do that? Why can he not tell our European partners to do that?

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