Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are bringing forward measures that are actually working and it takes time to turn housing around. Consider where we are with completions. Since we have taken over and since this coalition has come into government, by the end of 2023 we had built more than 100,000 new homes in this country. There are still stresses and demands there, unquestionably, and that is why we need to increase supply across all tenures. This is why last year we built more new social homes than Ireland has done in 50 years and affordable homes for the first time in a generation.

With regard to renters, cost rental is taking hold now. We now have cost-rental apartment developments right across this country. I have met those tenants and have met people who have actually been able to get safe and secure tenancies at a minimum of 25% below market. That is working but the Social Democrats have opposed every single measure and every single piece of legislation that has come in here-----

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