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

-----on housing, on health, on the opportunities to build a good life here, where housing is affordable, where healthcare is accessible, where the State has your back and supports you when you need them. That is what we need. That is what Sinn Féin offers: a Government that is on the side of workers and families, opening the corridors of power to the voices of ordinary people, new people with new ideas, ready to prove ourselves and to prove that we can deliver something better.

This is why we will not be supporting the nomination of Teachta Chambers as the Minister for Finance. We believe that the country is ready for something new and not simply a rejig or a reshuffle of personnel that sees no change in policy and no change in direction. We need the reset in housing demanded by the Housing Commission. We cannot continue with a Government that thinks workers can pay €500,000 for an affordable home as we see with the new so-called affordable housing scheme on Oscar Traynor Road here in Dublin.

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