Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This question arises as a result of the serious and daily emerging housing crisis that exists in the counties in the eastern region, in particular those adjacent to Dublin - Kildare being one of them - and the urgent need to do something about a problem that, undoubtedly, the Government inherited. However, that should not mean for one moment that we would fail to recognise that it is now a growing crisis that needs to be addressed.

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