Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question was about building. The fact is that in the first nine months of 2015, only 28 local authority houses were built. Sin é. That is the truth of it. The buzzword or weasel word the Taoiseach used was "delivery". He spoke about delivering. He said there was a need to build houses by 2020 and 2021 while on his watch now tens of thousands of families are in need of a home. As we sit here in the Chamber, there are children spending their formative years in homeless accommodation. They need social housing, not the Minister, Deputy Kelly, polishing his legacy at yet another press conference. They do not need serial announcements. The Government is all about the optics. It is all about spin and talking tough. The Taoiseach will remember his posturing at the meeting with the insurance industry in the aftermath of the recent flooding. He said he wanted them back within a week with what they were going to do, but those families still do not have insurance. That meeting was all about spin. There was no delivery.

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