Housing and school delivery
The Minister set out housing and education achievements, including rent stability measures, public housing investment, O’Devaney Gardens and Gaelscoil Bharra. Opposition deputies challenged the claims, saying homes and schools were still not being delivered and that progress remained too slow.
When the various candidates for the leadership of my party declare what they are going to do, the Deputy will see their commitment to implementing the programme for Government. She will see their commitment to implementing the agreement we have with the main Opposition party and the reason we want to do so. Please allow me to give her some other statistics because she is so eager to point to our difficulties.
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Please allow me to point out that there are 186,000 households now benefiting from the rent stability zone legislation brought forward by the Government.
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Please allow me to point to the fact that €5.4 billion is being invested to provide additional public housing.
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For example, what is to take place at O'Devaney Gardens which, again, is in our constituency and which, again, was promised by many-----
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-----was actually supported by the Deputy's party at local authority level in Dublin City Council.
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I am glad that the Deputy acknowledged the point about Gaelscoil Bharra.
I agree that the pupils, families and teachers in that school waited for too long. Allow me to point to one simple fact. What Government finally made it happen? It was the last Government-----
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There are many other schools that have not been-----
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-----using the proceeds of economic progress, the kind of progress the Deputy said would never happen.