Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. What we are doing, and what the Deputy has recommended that we do, we are doing all over the country, namely, building public housing on public land. We are building public housing on private land and buying private housing to use as public housing. We are doing all of those things. Look at the census figures for the past ten years. The percentage of people who live in and benefit from social housing has gone up, not down. About 40,000 more families live in social housing now than was the case ten years ago. Last year was a record year in terms of the provision of new social housing. We are determined to make sure that this year is the same again.

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