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

I will address one issue with regard to the number of people who own their own homes. Many of them have family, children and grandchildren, living with them. People are squeezed into box rooms with no hope. With regard to this idea of segregating and saying that people who own their own homes are grand, many people are worried about their children. This is not a one generation issue but a multi-generation issue that people are concerned about.

Affordable housing is a key issue. Some 82% of planning permissions granted in Dublin relate to build-to-rent properties that will be provided at very high rents. The kind of city being built is unsustainable. The Tánaiste is hell-bent on keeping things on that particular track, which makes 15-minute sustainable cities unachievable because people are being pushed out further. Looking at the evidence, it shows it is not working, it is a disaster and the Tánaiste should acknowledge that.

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