Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----Fine Gael will be happy. However, people expected better from the Labour Party and what is ironic about the homelessness situation is that two Ministers are directly responsible for it. One is the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, who is the Minister responsible for the legislation under discussion and who is responsible for rent supplement but has not done anything on it. The second is the Minister with responsibility for housing, who is the Labour Party's deputy leader. Consequently, the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party are the two principal Ministers who are responsible for the homelessness situation that has arisen under the Government's watch. When the Labour Party entered office, there was not a homelessness issue. I acknowledge there were other issues but this issue arose under its watch.

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