Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

There are two things. First, Fianna Fáil has been in government for five years, not ten. That is a fact. Second, Deputy Bacik said people were briefing at the end of February. They were not briefing. What happened was that I went public and said there would be reform and that there would have to be change. I made a general statement saying that we would have to attract private sector investment. All of the Opposition deliberately distorted that and the Deputy declared that it was the end of RPZs, when ending RPZs was never contemplated. The legislation was expiring at the end of this year. All of the Opposition endorsed the Housing Commission's report. Read it. It said that the Dáil was too reactive and that too many short-term decisions were taken in the last Dáil.

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