Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, and look forward to voting to express confidence in him this evening. I do so because I see every day the work he is doing. I know he absolutely cares about the people affected by the homelessness crisis, the people struggling with rents and the people who aspire to homeownership. I also know he cares about those who are now being placed in housing because of the massive increase in homebuilding the State is engaging in, those who are now benefiting from new cost-rental homes for the first time in the history of our State.

I know the Minister cares about all of those who are now applying for, and successfully achieving, affordable housing for the first time in this country in well over a decade. The motion put before us this evening, as has been said, will not build a single home. It is full of criticisms. It is about politics. It is about competition between the Opposition.

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