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

I can only surmise that the Taoiseach wishes to deflect and comment on Sinn Féin's policies because he knows he has been caught out. He has been found out. He spoofed during the election campaign. He presented a work of fiction. It was fact flexibility from Fianna Fáil. What a novel thing - not. Now he is in the hot seat again and there is an expectation of delivery and he is showing no serious intent, much less any capacity, to actually deliver the affordable homes that working people require at scale, and no real interest in taming runaway rents - far from it.

He is quite happy to listen to his lobbyist friends and all of his old party political mates who now find themselves in other places of influence.

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