Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-12
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I am happy to rephrase if it is helpful. If I said "plenty" or "lots of", I am happy to use the term “some”. I was specifically asked about cases of people in emergency accommodation for several years. I know some of those cases because I am trying to help those people. In some cases, people have been offered accommodation and have turned it down. There are people on the social housing list who have been offered accommodation and have turned it down. Sometimes they do it for very good reasons, and I acknowledge that, but to try to twist that and make out that somehow I am blaming people for the housing crisis is just fake. It is populism and misrepresentation and is beneath the Deputy.

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Sitting date: 2023-07-12