David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With respect, what actually collapsed is the figure the Tánaiste gave to the public of 40,000, which was instead 29,000. In fact, what has collapsed is the credibility of the Tánaiste and Taoiseach when it comes to housing matters. Their record speaks for itself. Every single month, we see house prices, rents and homelessness rising on their watch. Worse than that and to top it all off, they misled the public deliberately and consciously in the run-up to a general election, when even Government-funded organisations were telling them they were wrong. It was stroke politics by the Tánaiste and Taoiseach.

They are not interested in real solutions.

The Tánaiste says he is and claims that I am playing politics. I am holding him to account for, in my view, misleading the public. I put it to him earlier that the Housing Commission, the Government's own Housing Commission that is independent of all of us, clearly set out the failures and what needs to be done. He ignored it as he has ignored Sinn Féin's plans. I ask him again to at least concede he misled the public. Will he agree to a radical reset on housing policy?

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