Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a clear message, if there ever was one, to workers and families that under this Government, in terms of housing, things will not get better. Indeed, they will get worse. Sinn Féin has set out a plan. We said very clearly that what should have been in this budget was the biggest State-supported construction of social, affordable and cost-rental houses in the history of the State, delivering 21,000 public homes next year. That is what it is needed. That is the ambition and the scale of the crisis but the Government has failed to meet that.

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