Housing construction emergency
Senator Leyden says the State should use local-authority land, engineers and direct labour to build homes, describing homelessness and emergency accommodation as a national emergency.
Many of them are underutilised in that many of the engineers do not have the amount of work to do that they should have. Most of them have been transferred to deal with water services. Good quality engineers and builders could have direct labour contracts. We have electricians, plumbers, plasters-----
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I am. We have to be innovative in area. Builders will not build now because the profit to be made in building is nil at this stage. It is cheaper to buy a house than to build one. We need to have a fresh look at this issue and a radical approach needs to be taken. It is a national emergency when there are people living on the streets of Dublin and people living in emergency accommodation and no action is being taken to alleviate the situation. Action must be taken.