Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

A large amount of money has been announced for Rebuilding Ireland. We are trying to desegregate the capital from the current. Increasingly we are seeing the current amount growing, and given the amount of precarious employment, including zero-hour contracts, low-hour contracts and temporary employment, more people will qualify. The number is growing, and the housing model becomes unsustainable into the future because more and more money will be used for the current side as opposed to the capital side. It becomes an unsustainable housing model which really supports private landlords as opposed to a longer term approach. I accept that we are in the middle of a crisis and it will take time to get out of that. However, we are going to make it more difficult to get out of if the money is all spent and committed into the future, which is the way that this has been approached.

With regard to the numbers, separating the RAS from the HAP is important because some people are simply moving from one to the other and so perhaps the numbers are being duplicated.

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