Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I dtus báire, bronnaim mo bhuíochas agus mo chomhghairdeas don Aire as ucht an méid oibre atá déanta aige. The Minister is passionate, understanding and is delivering. He deserves our support and our credit for what he is doing. This is not about trying to score political points, as some Members opposite always seem to be trying to do. This debate is about the provision of housing. Senator Murnane O'Connor always states that the past is gone. She is right. We cannot live in the past but we can remember the past and learn from it. I saw her leaflet in Carlow at the weekend and she was welcoming the budgetary provisions on housing. I am glad she welcomed the budgetary provisions on housing.