Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

The point here is that the State has to lead in this regard and subsidising the private sector is not the way forward. I would be interested in the detail that the Minister stated he would furnish in terms of the State's portfolio. I repeat that it is fine if it is the remit of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, but somebody has to take stock of all of the properties in State ownership and prioritise those that can be converted and retrofitted for housing purposes because it is a cheaper, more efficient and quicker way of delivering badly needed housing stock rather than wasting funding on the private sector.

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