Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. For the past number of weeks, there has been intensive lobbying on behalf of Irish Institutional Property, Property Industry Ireland and the Irish Property Owners Association all claiming, wrongly, in my view, that RPZs - as inadequate a protection as they are, they still provide form of protection - are the reason Government did not meet its targets last year. That is not true. The reason the Government did not meet its target of 33,000 new homes last year is because for the fifth year in a row it missed its social and affordable housing targets. The failure to meet housing need is on the Government, not on renters and the rent they pay.

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