Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

They may be facts but they do not explain why we have major staff shortages across our health service and, therefore, long waiting lists and a crisis in our emergency departments, and classes being cancelled because teachers have nowhere to live. What are we going to do about this?

I have a proposal. The Minister stated that we should not spend the windfall tax receipts on ongoing expenditure. He was right. Why do we not invest those receipts in buying more housing instead of letting the large investment funds buy up property and charge extortionate rents that teachers, nurses and construction workers cannot afford? Would that not be a sensible investment of that money?

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