David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Therefore, my positive message to those people listening to this debate is that I want a Government that wants to bring those people back so they can build in this country, and build the homes that people need.

I have always said, and I believe it to be true, that Fine Gael represents a cosseted, privileged class, and it proves me right every single time. It is the party, supported by Fianna Fáil and now the Green Party, that rolled out the red carpet for institutional investors to come in and buy up tens of thousands of properties that should have been bought by Irish people. Instead, however, they were bought up by these vulture funds that are now charging extortionate rents to those very same people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. That is because Fine Gael represents the cosseted, privileged classes. We saw it with the collapse of the Celtic tiger. Who was bailed out? It certainly was not ordinary working people. They were met with vicious cuts. Every single time, when it comes to defending the interests of the elites, the golden circles or institutional investors versus those of ordinary working people, we know what side Fine Gael is on and we know what side Fianna Fáil is on.

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