Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We cannot do it without setting up an entity that can borrow off the Government balance sheets to provide the infrastructure and have the facility for everyone.

I agree that this is a problem for everyone. Surely in 2014 we should be able to provide good quality, comfortable, warm and affordable housing for people. As I have said, we went from 90,000 houses to 8,000 houses. Why is it that when Government puts up money for 1,800 boarded-up units in this city, to which families can be allocated, each entire unit has to be scoured out and cleaned out completely, as if starting from afresh, when a good competent contractor could move in and agree to have a given unit in shipshape comfortable, warm, dry condition and affordable for a family? They should not be leaving them for nine or ten months after a unit is renovated and fixed up without awarding them to a family.

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