Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Boyd Barrett missed it so he will never know and I will never tell.

It is true that the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of people who are locked into renting are resting on this Bill, on the measures therein and on the investment that will hopefully be brought forward. I was very struck during the election campaign by the number of people I met in my constituency in Donaghmede who told me about the affordable purchase homes they bought when they were younger as part of the newly-wed scheme, under which a lottery was run in the Mansion House. They told me about how their grown up children are now living in the boxroom upstairs with their grandchildren. All of us want to see that ending. I will certainly be supporting the measures in this Bill that are effective and I will be proposing amendments to the measures that need to be improved and strengthened.

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