Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Someone was doing 50,000, someone else was doing 100,000, so it was "Oh, we are going to do 150,000." You have got to get them built and stop objecting all over the place to housing. If it is the priority that it is, people need to stop objecting to housing developments as they are going up on the basis of whether they are social, affordable or whatever. That has happened too and it has slowed down a lot of projects on councils. That said, do not be under any illusion but that there is total urgency in respect of housing. There is a whole raft of schemes, as the Deputy knows, such as the help to buy scheme and the first homes scheme. They have had a significant impact-----

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