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Seanad: Budget 2024 (Finance): Statements (10 Oct 2023): John McGahon: ...or making something up. This is borne out in the results. In this country, every week 400 people are buying their first homes. Since this day last year, when we all spoke about budget 2023, 30,500 new homes have been built. There have been 11,630 new social homes, of which 9,300 are already under construction. They are the facts in black and white. People can see this with their own...

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