Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. A bit of respect, please. Sinn Féin would deliver a minimum of 8,000 affordable homes each year - 4,000 affordable cost rental and 4,000 affordable purchase homes. Sinn Féin would structure the financing and delivery of the affordable purchase homes to deliver an average purchase price of €230,000 in Dublin and less elsewhere. We need an approach that puts people's needs first, not one that delivers on every whim of the private developer.

Some Members have tried to insinuate that the Sinn Féin plan would mean a person would not own his or her own home. This is simply untrue. The purchaser owns the home and the property is theirs to alter, extend and to pass on to their children, unlike the Government's proposal which would involve inspections of people's houses annually. How is that for othering people who avail of supports to get housing?We make no apologies for wanting to make sure that affordable homes remain permanently affordable. To achieve this, the land will remain in public ownership for future generations. That is sustainable affordability into the long term.