Cabinet Committees Dail Éireann — 2021-07-07 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central We need to move to a different model of leasing. First, the State should own in the local context. Second, I would like to tell Deputy Boyd Barrett that I do not believe the State should be competing with first-time buyers to buy houses. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-07-07/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:30+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-07-07