Ms McDonald told the Dáil that Mr Varadkar appeared to ‘fail to grasp what’s actually happening out there in the real world’
“Thousands of affordable homes that should have been built have not been built,” she said. “This is an incredible failure by Government in the middle of the most serious housing emergency in the history of the State.The Sinn Féin leader added that the Government’s decision to end the eviction ban last month had “thrown thousands of renters to the wolves”.Labour leader Ivana Bacik said the figures were “more evidence of this Government’s failed policies on housing”.
“Indeed, the first sentence of yesterday’s Government press release goes so far as to welcome what is in fact a failure in delivery and a failure to meet targets,” the Dublin Bay South TD said. In response, Mr Varadkar said the last time there was a Labour Minister for Housing there were only 400 new social homes delivered, compared to 7,500 last year under his Government.
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