Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. A number of those Departments, such as that dealing with housing, are key to the future economic and social well-being of the country. In the past few days I received a quote from a system builder to the effect that he could build houses for €125,000 per unit. They would be perfectly passable and good houses and they could deal with the emergency that has arisen. Similar emergencies may arise in health or education, and it is in respect of those issues that I am asking the Minister if he is conscious of and generating an urgency and awareness within those Departments through the Ministers of what might have to be done in the not too distant future.

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