Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First of all, as I said to the Deputy, and I will say again, there was no attempt to mislead the public on this. That is the first point.

I will make another point. We used ESRI data for our election targets in housing, which the Deputy's party did and everybody did. The fundamental question is how the targets are achieved. That is the core question. What the Social Democrats put forward on its election manifesto and programme did not persuade people that it had a silver bullet on housing because it did not. I met with the Social Democrats and the Labour Party during talks on the formation of Government and you were extremely poor in terms of what you brought forward: no fleshing out-----

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