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

If the Deputy has other ideas, that is fine, but they have to be focused on getting more houses built and getting them built faster, which I have said consistently over the last while.

From about 2020 onwards about 130,000 new homes were built, which is more than anything in the previous decade or more. Momentum did switch. There was a turn and a significant shift in momentum in terms of house construction but given the population growth in this country, which has been quite significant over the last decade or a half, we need to build more homes and we need to build them faster. This Government is two months in office, essentially-----

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