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

I thank the Deputy. The decision we made today was not just a decision to allow the moratorium to lapse. We also made a decision to buy 1,500 homes where the landlord is selling up and the tenant is a social housing tenant. That will prevent hundreds, if not thousands, of families from going into homelessness. We decided to increase the number of social homes we will provide this year to in or around 12,000. Last year, we built about 8,000 new social homes, probably the highest number since 1975. We are going to do more again this year. We have also taken other measures.

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