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

With pleasure, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome our visitors from Ballyhaunis Community School.

Fáilte isteach gach duine.

The Taoiseach would be more Animal Farm than 1984, some being more equal than others and none more unequally treated than that generation I have described to him who are locked out of home ownership, and well he knows it. Yes, industry has to pay. By the way, all of those on the benches opposite are responsible for the light-touch regulation or the no regulation at all that gave rise to this nightmare, so that is where culpability for that lies. Of course, the Taoiseach has to ensure that industry and those responsible, including the banks, pay - that is for sure. Never mind Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, who the Taoiseach has a minor fixation with, if I might say. It is the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, not Deputy Eoin Ó Broin. It is the chartered surveyors and they are telling the Taoiseach that his initiative will inflate the cost by €4,000. I am asking him not to do that. That is it. Do not do that. Do not move forward with that levy. It is a simple as that.

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