Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am very slow, I am on the way. I used to listen to the same complaints about jobs. When the Fine Gael and Labour Party Government started delivering jobs, and we had some great success, and Senator Humphreys was a Minister in that Government and would have seen the reduction in the demand for social protection because he was in that Department, yet the mantra was that they were not real jobs. They were real jobs and that has been proven. Likewise, we are told the housing plans are not working but they are working. It is not enough to deal with the housing shortage, and nobody is saying that it is. People are not stupid. They know there are thousands of houses being built.