Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

She commended me for commending her, and then she echoed my point that housing units cannot be delivered overnight. She made the promise to provide 5,384 new social housing units in 2015 but she is not going to deliver them, yet the promise was in her document. She might explain this to us.

Irrespective of the meetings the Minister might have had throughout the country, the fact remains that local authorities have not been given their budgetary allocation for social housing for 2015. Riddle me this: the Tánaiste proclaims in her glossy document, and her press releases reiterate, her apparent concern over the housing crisis and for people who need a roof over their heads, yet when it comes to setting out the nuts and bolts of how the homes will actually be delivered, she draws a blank. Is the Tánaiste delivering the 5,384 social housing units? Have I misunderstood her? I understand she is now resiling from that promise.

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