Departmental Offices
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-12
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Alan Kelly (LAB), Tipperary

I do not have enough time to engage on this topic. I remind the Taoiseach that the reason the then Minister, former Deputy Michael Noonan, brought in real estate investment trusts, REITs, in 2011 or 2011 was because the Taoiseach and his colleagues damn well destroyed this country with their housing policies. They were in bed with developers. The Taoiseach should not come in here and start throwing out commentary like that without reflecting on the fact that he did not have the guts to stand up to his own party. It took him until the very end, when he knew everyone else had fallen, to do that. He has some cheek to come in here and talk in the manner he has without reflecting on his own history and who he sat beside when decisions were made to destroy this country for generations.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-12