Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-08
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I answered the Deputy's question. Perhaps she could not hear the answer because she was too busy shouting me down, or the people behind her were too busy shouting me down. The options include social housing. We are going to build more social housing than ever before. We are ramping up cost rental, which is another option. A third option is we are going to purchase 1,500 homes where the landlord is selling up and there is a social housing tenant in situ . Fourth, we are developing a further budget package to help renters and landlords.
The Deputy stood up there and created a false narrative and another straw man. She said landlords are not to blame for the housing crisis, as if somehow anybody on the Government benches ever made that argument. She is the one who has been consistently demonising small landlords and institutional landlords, not us, so she should not make that false argument. The Deputy kind of makes out that somehow Sinn Féin would be able to solve this crisis. Look to the North. I know she hates it when we talk about the North, but look to the North.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-08