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

-----but 50,000 new tenancies created last year means that 50,000 people found a new place to live. It might have been a new property to rent. It might have been that they were renting it for the first time.

That is the answer to the Deputy's question as to where people will go - new tenancies. Fifty thousand individuals and families found a new place to rent last year. That will be the same this year. In some cases it will be social housing tenancies,

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