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

In Sinn Féin's most recent budget manifesto, the only proposal relating to rental properties was to add a €400 second home tax on individual landlords, the very mom and pop landlords Deputy Ó Broin says he wants to keep in the market. That was the Sinn Féin proposal.

Let us get back to the facts. The reality is that housing is not a political game. Deputies should not be playing with people in this space. What we have to show people is a realistic way to increase supply and deliver affordable housing. The Affordable Housing Act passed by this House passed, with the support of many Deputies opposite, is delivering cost rental for the first time in this country. We want to deliver that at scale. We going to deliver cost rental at greater scale through the LDA, which is about using State-owned land to deliver houses. Its goal is to put idle State-owned land to use for the good of citizens and deliver social and affordable housing. Deputy Ó Broin and his party colleagues voted against the LDA legislation.

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