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

We are in the midst of the biggest housing crisis this State has ever seen. The Minister's plan proposes yet more focus on private developers to resolve this, yet this is the same market that caused the problem in the first place. The Minister has now introduced a new element by making it crystal clear that public land - the most precious way we have of resolving the housing crisis - is to be gifted by councils to these private developers. It is an incredible thing to do in the midst of a housing crisis.

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