Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and a variety of schemes to prevent people from becoming homeless and being put on the housing list. These include the housing assistance programme and the tenancy agreement for increased rent supplement, which have helped thousands of people. Given that the economy is recovering, and it is important that we keep the recovery going, the Government has put €3 billion on the table for social housing to build 117,000 units by 2020. We have given local authority chief executives money, objectives, targets, facilities and the wherewithal to get on and do this.

Week after week the Deputy comes in here, but he has forgotten any sense of fiscal responsibility. If he wants to take another €2 billion of public services and put it into NAMA housing, then let me hear that proposition from him. He seems to think that he can magically produce another 10,000 social houses out of NAMA but it does not work that way.

Of course, one can have a legal opinion on everything. We all empathise with the people whose children are in hotel rooms, bed and breakfast facilities or other emergency accommodation. Among all those challenging cases, the 123 complaints received in respect of that programme were all dealt with. I note the-----

See this speech in context