Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has been in government for 12 years. This is his 13th budget. We have had the highest record ever of overcrowding in our hospitals. The Taoiseach can talk about the millions and billions of euro but people in my constituency want to know that if they get admitted to the hospital they will not have to lie on a trolley or sit in a chair for over a day. They want to know that their son and daughter will be able to afford to rent an apartment in this State. They want to know that they will be able to live in this State. They want to know, where families are currently in emergency accommodation, that as a society we are able to respond to that and not to see it deteriorate month on month, which is happening under the Taoiseach's watch.

I have asked the Taoiseach, for his 13th budget, whether he recognises that the crises we have in housing, in health and in homelessness are as a result of the Government's policy and whether there will be anything in the summer economic statement that acknowledges a change of direction or whether it is more of the same; Fine Gael's head in the sand and the situation on housing and health will continue to get worse.

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