Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

Where I disagree with her is, if we want to get to 50,000 houses, we will need the private sector involved. We will. There is a tendency in the Opposition to decry builders or people who will have to build the houses. The bottom line is we have a problem with the viability of apartments. That is well known. There are 40,000 apartments with planning permissions, but they are not being built because the argument has been they cannot be built at a cost that would make it affordable for people to buy. A number of measures-----

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