John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To walk around this city or many streets throughout the State and see any person sleeping on the street is a damning indictment of the Government. To see the emergence of tents throughout the capital is appalling. For me and many other people, it speaks of the lack of a plan and a lack of urgency from the Government to address what is a crisis.

This time last year there was a grand announcement on the approval of 500 modular units to be moved forward. That was quickly changed. It was increased to 700 and the delivery of these modular units was to be last November. We have yet to see one of them being delivered. Today a committee was told that only 64 of them will be handed over in the coming weeks. This stinks of a lack of urgency. Can we get an update on why there is such a delay? Why is there such a lack of urgency?

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