Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I still do not understand why I could not get the response in writing at the start of September. I have never seen it happen before that I have not been able to get a response when I have continuously asked the exact same question and the exact same response was given. It really annoyed me. The Ministers have taken their eye off the ball. The response I got after much pestering was that 7,500 were waiting. That is a significant number of people. We were just discussing student accommodation and we are aware of the housing crisis in general, not to mention the impact it is having on these people’s lives. The eye was taken off the ball and I could not get a response because nobody wanted to admit it. That is my reading of the situation.

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