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

I accept that building needs to happen more quickly and output needs to increase. I do not think we disagree about that. That is not the issue I am trying to raise. I do not see the evidence on the ground. Housing is the number one issue I hear about on my phone, and has been for the past ten or 12 years. I am acutely aware of it.

This is the most expensive and least satisfactory way of delivering social housing. Social housing is now a financial product.

I see no evidence on the ground of scaling up. I see turnkey and long-term leasing in terms of how housing is manifesting in my area. Increasingly, I am seeing that in some of the Dublin local authorities. Is the Taoiseach certain about what he is telling is? Has there been a shift in policy because I am only seeing turnkey and long-term leasing? Increasingly, it is long-term leasing with a council being told to take it or leave it. It is being actively promoted by the Department.

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