Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party) | Oireachtas source

-----without shouting one another down - that will do nothing for the father living in his car tonight, depending on Wi-Fi from a hotel while working 50 hours a week. It is not going to help the constituent who came to my office last week, who spoke to me about the full-time job he is doing and yet living out of a car.

It is not helping the mother in Cork city who is going into the housing department to be told, "Sorry, there is nothing for you, go into a homeless crisis centre with your children". It is not going to help those couples who lost their houses between 2008 and 2014, are now back in employment after losing their businesses, renting privately and can afford to pay the rent but are approaching the age of 65. What will happen when they retire? They will be back on the housing list. We are compounding the problem and bringing more people back onto our housing list. We are not addressing it. We are too busy. Parties in this Chamber are too busy attacking one another, looking for publicity rather than trying to fix the crisis. For God's sake lads, you are a disgrace.

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