Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

12:20 pm

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not know whether the Deputy has noticed but I am not the Taoiseach, nor am I in the habit of finishing anybody else's questions unlike him. However, increasing housing supply is the most fundamental and important issue on the agenda of our Cabinet and Government at the moment because it is raised at every Cabinet meeting and in every session of this Dáil. We intend to introduce affordable housing for purchase, to make sure that cost rental homes will form a major chunk of the landscape in the rental market in the future and to provide €75 million in Exchequer funding to enable infrastructure to be developed on service sites in order that local authorities can open up land for development. The most recent announcement we made a couple of weeks ago was the establishment of one of the most important State organisations in generations, which will open up public land to offer social, private and rental houses to everybody in the market at every cost that they can afford-----

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