Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-18
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I know. I am articulating a basic principle around this. We will build more houses and more social homes, as we are doing and will be doing consistently. I have seen no mechanism from any other party. Some parties say we should be building 20,000 social homes. There is no capacity at present to build 20,000 social homes. It is not there. We all need to be honest. It is all good for Deputies to go on television and radio and state they think there should be 20,000. They write a paragraph and it is a policy that we should have 20,000 instead of 10,000. That is not a policy.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-18