Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are in the middle of a housing disaster. It is the greatest crisis facing the country and the greatest civil liberties issue of this generation. It is really unedifying and unhelpful to listen to a shouting match between two men in this Chamber, shouting and trying to score points off each other. That is not helpful for the more than 13,000 people in homelessness and the 4,000 children among that number who are in emergency accommodation. It is not helpful for the thousands of young adults living on in their childhood bedrooms, unable to move out or secure affordable homes to rent or buy, to hear this level of barracking in the Chamber. I thought we were better than that in this House. It is really not helpful. Debates should be chaired in a way that enables a respectful exchange of views. Let us disagree agreeably.

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