Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Approximately 500 new mortgages are drawn down each week, so the opportunity is there. We are creating more houses. More and more are coming on stream all the time and we can see that. The only way we would achieve house prices of €300,000, as the Deputy's party is suggesting, is to have a recession. That is the only way house prices will come down. I am being realistic about all of this and I telling people the facts. You cannot build a house for €300,000.

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