Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am aware that the Minister is a constituency colleague and rival of Deputy Healy, and the Minister of State represents Waterford, which is beside Tipperary. To be fair to the Minister and Minister of State, they have introduced a comprehensive housing strategy and they can be judged on its delivery and implementation. The Deputy should give the Government some credit for allocating money to the strategy.

I am in politics 11 years. I made the point, genuinely, that social housing is something that we should be ashamed of in how we have treated people.

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