Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

These questions follow on from our earlier discussion and relate to what the Government is doing to build up our labour and skills capacity to deliver housing, in particular, but also some of the other key infrastructure we need. My point, given the Minister said he did not understand it, is not that everything the private sector does is wrong but that it simply does not have the capacity and, therefore, the State has to build up its own capacity.

However, there is little sign that the State understands that and is pursuing it with rigour.

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