Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The Government is employing a new housing tzar with a salary of €430,000, which is an incredible figure. Because of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents, that may well be the salary someone needs to buy a home in many parts of this country at the moment. We have a record breaking Government for all the wrong reasons. We have record house prices, rents and numbers of people on the homeless list at the moment. There are incredible figures. This Government is in reverse on the most important issue facing the country.

In the majority of Government targets on housing, the Government cannot meet its targets, even those targets that are well short of what is actually necessary. Does the Taoiseach agree that at the heart of this plan is the Government is looking to put space between itself and the housing crisis? It is looking for a mudguard to deflect attention from its actions on the housing crisis. It is another effort to outsource what should be the competency of the Minister. He is well paid and has at least 20 senior managers in his Department. Will the Government go about the job of building houses for Irish people?

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