Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Attacking Sinn Féin for a housing crisis Fianna Fáil created demonstrates just how threadbare the Taoiseach's approach is. The story I told of the woman and the family in Ringsend is not a sound bite. It is the truth. It is the reality they are living. One finds that reality throughout Dublin Bay South. The Taoiseach is on the doors and will hear it too in Sandymount, Pearse Street, Irishtown, Harold's Cross, Ranelagh and Rathgar. It is always the same and yet the Taoiseach is so out of touch with the harsh realities, he cites a shared equity scheme as evidence of his attendance to affordability matters, which is the very scheme that has been slammed and criticised by experts across the board, not just by Sinn Féin, because it is not the answer.

The answer is to double capital investment and for the State to really step forward to deliver 20,000 public homes every year to meet social and affordable need. That is not just Sinn Féin's view either. The ESRI supports that view. Yesterday, the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA-----

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