Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Essentially, there was no large-scale housing development during that time. A stream of building that should have taken place that would have contributed to the solutions for what was evidently a housing crisis. I have no confidence in Fianna Fáil resolving this. I would be one of the 75% because I have seen no evidence. I ask the Minister to look for the evidence and listen to people. People must be contacting his constituency office in the same way that they contacting mine. I see a great deal of hopelessness and people talking about emigrating because there is no hope. That is the young generation that has been totally failed by the previous Government and that of the Minister.

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