Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a query in respect of this issue. The Government's plans are having success. However, they are, unfortunately, too slow. They were quite successful in dealing with the population as it was four, five or ten years ago but in the present climate, we find that counties adjacent to Dublin city and county are having serious problems with a lack of emergency housing. We in County Kildare have run out of possibilities. We are trying. I am asking the Taoiseach to initiate an emergency programme of modern modular housing to deal with those situations as they arise. We cannot live forever with people being changed around in emergency housing. These are people who will have no other option for the foreseeable future.

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