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

It is a fact the Government's belated housing targets are 20% below what is required according to its own Housing Commission.

These are not Sinn Féin figures; they are the Government's figures. The Government has yet again failed to recognise the scale of the crisis and the need we face. I asked the Taoiseach to explain the fact that he has undershot by 20%. The memo was brought to Cabinet. As of yet, I have not seen how many social or affordable housing units are contained in the figures. The Taoiseach might enlighten us on that. On the bigger issue, how is it that, after years of hot air from the Government, even as we exit this Dáil and the Taoiseach walks out the door for the final time, he still undersells and underplays and cannot even get his targets right? For God's sake, the Government is hardly going to build the necessary number of homes when it cannot even do the simple maths.

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