Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-16
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Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Dublin Central

-----rather than acknowledging in the first instance the very real mental health consequences of what is a housing catastrophe and emergency. The Minister cannot even accept that it is an emergency. Does the Taoiseach accept that it is an emergency?
The record of the Government, despite the Taoiseach's bluster, is that house prices, rents and homelessness are up. I will try to be of some assistance to the Taoiseach by telling him that the answer to this catastrophe is not to produce houses and accommodation that are way out of the reach and price range of ordinary and average workers. The answer is not to incentivise and roll out the red carpet to international funds, vulture or cuckoo funds, call them what you will funds-----

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Sitting date: 2022-11-16