Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

However, there is no supply in that area. The Government has secured a ceiling of supports, which the Tánaiste stubbornly refuses to move, contrary to the advice of all the experts in that area and organisations working on the front line of homeless people in this country. The Labour Party turned its back on the homeless and vulnerable. The Tánaiste who styles herself and her party as social democrats seems to think the primary purpose of rent is to support the rental market. She sees it as a market tool rather than a tool to secure-----

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