Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think Deputy Mattie McGrath has reversed the dialogue. I have great respect for Deputy Michael McGrath and did not do that.

This is the first week the new Government is functioning. A special housing committee, chaired by Deputy John Curran, was set up in response to the emergency. I appeared before the committee and it seems to be that it is doing constructive work and moving quickly through its agenda. At the same time, Deputy Simon Coveney has been given special responsibility as Minister to resolve the housing crisis. He is moving as quickly as possible on that and one of the first Cabinet sub-committees to have been set up is the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Housing and Homelessness. This committee has met already and will meet again this coming Friday. There is a lot happening. Nobody has a monopoly on ideas to solve this problem. I do not contradict what Deputy McGrath has said but his ideas should be fed through the housing committee for analysis.

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