Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Has the Minister not listened to the testimonies from those people that I read into the record? They are desperately looking for action and hope, and the action the Minister delivered in the past seven days, along with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, was to come in here and vote against banning rent increases and reducing rents. The action he delivered was voting against proposals Sinn Féin brought forward with regard to increasing the supply of social, affordable and cost-rental housing.

Last night, shamefully, the Green Party, which supposedly believes in urban living and apartment ownership, said to the vulture funds that it is a free-for-all and Dublin city is theirs. That is the effect of the Government's policies. Six out of every ten home completions last year were apartments and the Government has exempted the vulture funds from any minor increase in stamp duty.

How does the Minister put the Government's record over the past seven days with the statement that it will not leave people behind?

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