Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I find the failure of the Government's social housing policy infuriating for many reasons. The targets are never met, the human misery continues and the plan is fundamentally flawed in its reliance on the private sector. Aside from all of that, has the Minister actually looked at the insane cost if the Rebuilding Ireland policy were actually to work? Some 137,000 units that the Government hopes to deliver under that plan are going to be sourced from a private sector in which rents are going through the roof. Has the Minister worked out the crazy cost of that?

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