Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The housing committee, the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach himself have all expressed real concerns about the EU fiscal rules impinging on our ability to resolve our housing crisis. The structural rules, the structural balance rule, the expenditure benchmark and the debt rule have now become clear barriers to our investing in public, social and affordable housing, and I want to know what the Minister will do about this.

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