Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government needs the scale of ambition to match what has been put forward by Sinn Féin. The truth hurts, as we hear from the heckling here. It is a sore point that not a single extra social or affordable home above the existing targets have been provided.

We have long campaigned for the renter's tax credit. Do you remember that one, Paschal? You fought me tooth and nail on that and said it should not happen, because it would go into the pockets of landlords. The Minister needed to do two things; a tax credit and freeze the rents. He did one and did not do the other. To Deputy Donohoe, I say he may as well be writing those cheques and putting them into the landlords' pockets himself, because that is what is happening.

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