Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We need to have a process for dealing with the valid claims of young couples and young people to get a start on the housing ladder with affordable quality housing built by people who know what they are doing. We do not want to have apartment after apartment fired up and after they are occupied we discover they either have pyrite or are like Priory Hall. We are not going back there. We will get this right in the interests of the people, jobs, the citizens and our country. In that sense we will need to wait some time before we can put blocks on the ground and put people in those houses.

Even with the proposal of Deputy Ellis - good man that he is - of putting €1 billion on the table, we would still have to wait 18 months or two years before the families can move in.

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