Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This motion of confidence was triggered by a motion of no confidence from People Before Profit. The People Before Profit Members know that their motion had no chance of being passed and would not build a single house or house a single other family. Its purpose was to embarrass and to personalise what is a deeply important political and societal issue. The time could have been used to introduce legislation on housing which might have become law but it was not.

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