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

For some time, I have been trying to ring the alarm bells about the dangerous and flawed approach of the Minister and the Government to the housing and property sector. In dealing with other Ministers, I pointed out that it is leading to an emergency in the area of homelessness and the social crisis, but I also believe that it represents a serious threat to the macroeconomic health of the economy. This is confirmed by Douglas Newman Good's survey last week which shows that, unbelievably, a property bubble is developing again, just as I told the Minister it would approximately six months ago.

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