Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Government is paying €190,000 per unit for 500 modular houses, many of which will not be delivered until the end of next near. There are 739 houses listed for sale today on the Myhome.iewebsite, each of which cost less than €200,000. Why would the Government choose to buy temporary modular homes, many of which will not be delivered until next year, when it could purchase 739 houses online today, many of which could be refurbished and ready for occupation before Christmas, thereby providing people with permanent homes? I am proposing that this is what the Government should do with the money it has available.

In regard to the 2,000 housing units to be provided by NAMA, this is a pathetic return from NAMA as the biggest real estate agent in the world. We need to open up the books of NAMA, which is currently selling off huge blocks of land to vulture funds from the US, including LoneStar.

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