Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The census results show that under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, home ownership has collapsed. Last year, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, found that 15 years ago, of those between the ages of 25 to 32 years of age, 60% of them owned their own home. Today less than half that percentage is the case. Yesterday the EU agency found that the number of young Irish people living with their parents has seen among the largest increase in Europe since 2010. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have pushed home ownership beyond the reach of an entire generation. They have plunged them into unaffordable and insecure accommodation, forced them into extortionate rents, forced them to move in with their parents or to face homelessness. Their policies have not only failed this generation but are making things worse. For the past seven years Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in a Government arrangement. Do they accept that their policies have resulted in a collapse of home ownership or do they deny the census figures and the ESRI's findings?

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