Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have, along with the decisions of recent months, made a decision to increase the number of social housing acquisitions by 1,500 this year and supply an additional 1,000 homes through targeted leasing initiatives this year and next. We have amended the capital advance leasing facility used by approved housing bodies so they can provide more homes faster. There is a long list after that.

The Deputy talks about a generation who cannot put a roof over their heads but yesterday her party introduced a motion to this House to scrap the first-time buyer's grant, which has provided 38,000 young families with the ability to get on the housing ladder. We are a Government which believes in homeownership whereas the Deputy wants to be in a government that will focus solely on one kind of tenure, which is social housing.

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