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

This crisis is set to get worse if the Government persists with its current policy. Those are the facts. We saw figures from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland, BPFI, showing almost half of first-time buyers must run to their parents for help to secure a deposit. It is called the bank of mammy and daddy. Not every mammy and daddy are in a position to bankroll every son and daughter. Those who can are the fortunate ones. All the evidence stacks up that this Government is failing. Its housing policy is failing. However, the really alarming thing is it will not look to the evidence and it will not set out a coherent plan for success in housing. It prefers instead to attack the Opposition.

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