Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I mentioned a number of counties - Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Tipperary - and could have added Cavan, Leitrim, Offaly and Roscommon. These are the official figures. This is an official record of the Government's abysmal failure - the failure of the State to deliver affordable homes to purchase and rent. By the targets the Government set itself, it has failed. It is a big fail. I have never seen housing need so desperate and I happen to represent communities for whom a housing crisis is not a new crisis. Overcrowding and very poor living conditions have been experienced generation after generation but I have never seen anything as desperate as this.

What makes matters worse it seems is that we have a Government that is utterly delusional - either that or just deeply dishonest - because it is not delivering at pace and at scale the affordable homes young people in particular and families more generally need to buy.

I again ask the Taoiseach, what changes now? He said he is sorting this out. What change does he make now to begin the process of sorting it out?

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