Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Let me repeat for the Deputy the answer I just gave her. I said that in the budget, which was the first part of implementing the strategy, the Government made the largest allocation of Government funding for capital and current purposes to provide families with homes. That is step one. Step two is actually to provide that finance. The Deputy, but not I, quibbled that all the finance was not being provided entirely directly from Government sources and that some was to be off-balance sheet. I suggest she go back to the Sinn Féin advisers and check how one actually builds a housing programme.

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