Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will talk straight here. Every Government that has come in here, including Labour of old, said it would build. That party had the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Alan Kelly, at one time and built nothing while it was there. They are full of wind. It is like they are going to huff, they are going to puff and they are going to blow your house down. They are going to huff and puff and build you a house. They are full of wind.

The media log-on to this the whole time. They say the Social Democrats and Labour are going to do this. They do nothing because they have not got the common sense that you have to have to build houses. You need infrastructure. The Government and the previous Governments have never invested in infrastructure. If you do not have sewerage and water infrastructure, you cannot build houses. That is why you cannot build houses. There is no infrastructure. Labour should wake up and listen to people who understand what they are doing and not people who should be in straitjackets.

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