Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no question about that. That is the objective reality in terms of the allocation of funding to a variety of mechanisms, schemes and initiatives. The Government is providing the substantial funding for house construction.

We need more than that. That is point I am making, to which the Deputy has not really responded. She does not see a role at all for the private sector and smaller and medium-sized builders, good, bad or in different. The Deputy does not seem to think they have any role, or that housing estates should be constructed outside of one narrow focus, which her party seems to have. Why is Sinn Féin stopping the development of more than 800 houses at Oscar Traynor Road? It has been going on for years. If Sinn Féin has its way, it will go on for years again.

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