Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

The involvement of the State is enormous. It has to be balanced and supplemented with significant private sector investment. This is just one measure. On its own it will not do it. It will need to be accompanied by other measures. Last week, we took a decision to legislatively roll over planning permissions that might have been delayed by judicial reviews to keep supply going. It has to be about supply. From the Opposition in general, proposals on the supply side have been extraordinarily weak and not forthcoming on how to get from 30,000 a year to 50,000 a year.

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