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

Certainly if any market research has been done, I have not seen it myself but I have absolutely no difficulty with it being published.

In respect of the matters raised by Deputy Boyd Barrett, there is a labour and skills shortage across the construction sector which is causing difficulties. It is driving up tender prices and making it harder for us to accelerate house building to the extent we would like, notwithstanding the fact that there were probably more houses built last year in Ireland than in any year of the past decade.

That is a problem and it belies the fact that so many people here promise that if they were in government, they would be able to build tens of thousands of houses overnight or next year. That is not the case.

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