Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

There is widespread agreement that we have a full-blown social housing crisis in this country. In my county of Tipperary there are 2,546 families on the local authority housing waiting list while the national figure is huge. This Government and the previous Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government have depended on privatisation and the market to deal with the issue and this policy has been an abject failure. Will the Minister commence an emergency social house building programme through the local authorities and approved housing bodies in order to build 10,000 houses per annum, as recommended by many national housing advocacy groups?

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