Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have expanded the help-to-buy scheme to €30,000 for first-time buyers and we have introduced emergency powers, as Members will know, to accelerate the delivery of housing, a measure which, unsurprisingly, Sinn Féin did not support at the time we brought it forward.

I, like many Deputies across the House, have spoken to tenants over the past two weeks. They ask me what help is available to them and, unlike some of the Deputies opposite, I do not try to scare them by speaking of a tsunami of homelessness or of a deluge of people sleeping on the streets.

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