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

The budget provided a record allocation of €5.1 billion for housing. That will allow us next year to break all records when it comes to the provision of new public housing - social, cost rental and affordable. It is already clear the 2020s will be a record decade when it comes to public housing. No decade since the foundation of the State saw more social housing being built than will be the case this decade. It is important to point out that approved housing bodies such as Ó Cualann, the Peter McVerry Trust and Clúid get their funding from the Government. As they get almost all their funding from the Government, this is public housing.

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