Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This Government has banned bulk buying. We have changed planning and brought in an owner-occupier guarantee. For the first time in planning we have recognised owner-occupier as a tenure of housing. We are doing that and have done it. I am at a loss to understand what Sinn Féin housing policy is. I listened to the Deputy a few weeks ago talking about bringing in 10,000 vacant units in one year, which would supplement his magic 20,000 homes he wants to deliver. We are grounded in reality. The reality is that what we want to do and what we are doing is increasing housing supply on the public side, where we are going to build more social homes this year than ever before. We are bringing in affordable housing. We have cost-rental units in place. Yes, we are increasing private supply too. We need to get up to 33,000 a year. How we do that is by delivering and by building, not by objecting and blocking.

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