Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I presume we agree that cost rental is one of the main parts of the solution - one of the main parts of ramping up the numbers. The Land Development Agency is perfectly suited and is the right agency to deliver that sort of expansion. There will be no shortage of funding and ambition. It takes time and is not easy with the cost of building having gone up. We can bring it down by using the Land Development Agency on public land as well as the private sector. We need so many different parts of the solution and that is what we are committed to in Housing for All.

Project Tosaigh, which involves €0.5 billion, will help make that happen. In instances where the market is failing and where those build-to-rent apartments, particularly in the centre of our towns and cities are not going to built, I believe we should step in and take on that development and not be afraid of the State doing more.

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