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

What the Minister of State is saying is just not serious. She bandies about figures on RAS houses and refers to allocations of 5,000 and NAMA. The Taoiseach said today that NAMA offered 4,000 houses. Although a figure of 4,000 has been bandied about for three or four years, only 300 have been delivered nationally. Therefore, what has been said is just rubbish.

Let me outline why this proposal will make circumstances even worse than those associated with the rent allowance. With the rent allowance, a landlord must sign up for a period of a year.

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