Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I disagree first of all about the necessity to set up a State construction company. We are delivering under Housing for All. For the first time in a generation, we are delivering affordable housing and cost rental, as well as funding the AHBs to deliver too. We are delivering right across all housing tenures. That is critically important and we will continue to do that. The problems with establishing a State construction company would be quite significant, notwithstanding the time it would take to establish in terms of legislation. It would also have to compete with private sector companies in an already constrained employment market. We certainly do not see the need for it, while we are delivering at pace for 2022, 2023 and throughout the course of Housing for All.

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