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

We have to get supply up. Everybody in opposition, including the Deputy, says this is an emergency. Yet, they seem to think we have the luxury of voting everything down at the last minute when the project is before the council and all of the negotiations between council officials and other parties have been finalised. The scheme to which I refer includes over 230 social housing units and 230 affordable homes in a housing scheme of 1,200 units. Ideology gets in the way. People say they cannot and do not want to support that. There is always an excuse to object to something. We all have our political or ideological perspectives. For God's sake, we need to get houses built in this country and we need to get them going. One of the biggest problems we have is delivery on the ground and getting shovel-ready projects started.

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