Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Please do not keep telling me that we lack the desire, ambition or nature to do it. We are fully committed to doing so. We all accept that it cannot happen quick enough to solve the problem. We genuinely wish it could. Who would not? Nobody wants people to have to live in hotels, family hubs or anywhere else of that nature. They are not places in which to raise a family. We are committed to doing it, but first we have to make it happen. Our short-term plan is to deliver 50,000 houses in the next couple of years and then 110,000 social houses in the next ten years. That is not included in anybody else's plan. Tonight there was talk of delivering 20,000 houses.

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