David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We told the Government that it should be building public houses on public land. It ignored us. There is a report from the Land Development Agency which states that 60,000 homes could and should have been built. However, the Government did not do that. It did not do it because it failed. We were again proven right that public homes could and should have been built on public land. Our other policies include a ban on rent increases for three years, putting one month's rent back into the pockets of renters and embarking on the biggest social and affordable housing programme the State has ever seen. That is what Sinn Féin would do. What we will not do is evict people. What we will not do is see people who are desperately trying to find alternative accommodation over the next number of months being left homeless. As already stated, we would embark on the biggest social and affordable housing programme the State has ever seen.

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