Seanad debates
Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Housing Grants: Motion.
It is very difficult and I have great sympathy for young people who want to get into the housing market and one's heart goes out to them. However, this is one among a large number of areas that will be cut. When rents were frozen during the First World War it led to the destruction of the inner city of Dublin because it was not possible to get economic rents. It is one thing to freeze rents during wartime; it is another thing to unfreeze them. No Government had the courage to do it until Mr. Madigan took a constitutional action.
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