Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The facts are, based on the returns received from local authorities for transactions completed this year, that the average upfront affordability purchase price paid by borrowers is €267,000 for a range of two-, three- and four-bedroom homes. Look at the difference between the scheme that is working on the ground and Sinn Féin's scheme, where purchasers do not even own the land the property is built on. In Sinn Féin's utopian world, it will tell people who they can sell the house to and at what price and, furthermore, where they can live, given the Deputy has never explained where Sinn Féin is going to build these properties. What we are doing is building them out directly through the local authorities. The Deputy might find this amusing but if, God forbid, he ever got into this seat-----

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