Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

First of all, LIHAF is not a failure. It is Government money provided to give sites access and make them developable. I would have thought that - even from Deputy Boyd Barrett's point of view - he would have thought it an essential role of the State to provide public infrastructure to sites for housing. That is what LIHAF does. It connects the roads, brings in the water services and does all the things that are needed to make it possible for people to build on a site-----

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