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

My question follows on from the previous one. If we take housing as an example, the Housing Commission states that need to almost double the number of houses we deliver each year. If I understand what the Minister says in the summer economic statement, there is only going to be €1.4 billion in additional capital spending. Last year's housing package was €5 billion. How on earth are we going to get up to the level of housing output necessary to meet what the Housing Commission expects the housing needs of this country to be in future years if all that is available in this budget is €1.4 billion? It just does not add up, and it suggests, in the context of the key area we must address, that there is not going to be enough in the budget to deal with the dire housing crisis we face. That is one example. I could talk about health and other areas.

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