Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

To continue on that, the Tánaiste really needs to get that this is not just business as usual but a humanitarian situation. The bottom line for me in Mayo, right from the beginning when I first saw people's houses collapsing, was that nobody would be left behind or locked out of this scheme because they could not afford to get into it, could not find an alternative property or whatever else might lock them out. We cannot leave people behind in this situation because it was not their fault. It was not their fault there was no regulation or there was light regulation. Indeed, I query the regulation in place right now. That is why the Minister for housing needs to look at having proper oversight of the quarries currently supplying aggregate and materials being used to build houses. We are trying to deal with an immediate humanitarian situation here. In any other country in the world, this is the way it would be looked at. We are one of the richest countries in the world. I ask the Tánaiste to have some compassion and common sense. What is being proposed here also makes economic sense.

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