Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

I agree with the points made by the previous two speakers. I also raise the fact that it has been two weeks since the new housing plan was published. The main innovation is the removal of annual targets to prevent accountability for the failure of this Government to deliver affordable housing, while allowing a small few to get extraordinarily rich.

Since the plan has been published, we have been calling for a debate on it but it has still not been granted. Why is the Government scared of debating its own housing plan? Is this going to turn into what we had with the Housing Commission report where week in, week out, we will be demanding debates and the Government will say it is happy to debate it but for six months, we did not get a debate? When will we get a debate on the Government's housing plan?

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