Housing is the greatest issue affecting my generation and I will not apologise to any Member of the permanent Opposition that will stand in this Chamber and ask where young Fianna Fáil TDs are. I am proud to be a young Fianna Fáil TD. I am proud to come from a working-class republican background. I am proud to stand in this Chamber and represent young people across rural Ireland because I am impacted by the housing crisis. My generation is impacted by the housing crisis and I know what it means to face unaffordable rents, unaffordable housing and unaffordable purchase prices, and I will stand up in this Chamber and say it. I will not apologise to a Member who asked where the Fianna Fáil TDs were and when she had the chance to sit here and listen, she got up and left because it is more important for her to post her video on social media than actually listen to what is going on.

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It is more important to that Member to object to 211 homes in her own constituency than contribute positively to policy in this country. It is more important to that TD to sit in Opposition and oppose and object time and again when 211 homes could have been built in Clonsilla but she delayed them.

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As regards wastewater treatment plants, if Deputy 'Chap' Cleere puts a rocket up Irish Water, I will light it, if it means we will get a wastewater treatment plant in Cloghjordan and Ballycommon.

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We can build houses there if Uisce Éireann will provide the infrastructure. Time and again, every chance I have had to raise housing in this Chamber, I have done so and at every opportunity, I will again. We want houses in Cloghjordan and Ballycommon and they can be built if we provide the infrastructure, but it is urgent. It is needed now, not in five or ten years. My generation needs it now. We need affordable housing schemes in Nenagh, Roscrea, Thurles and Urlingford and I am proud to represent all those towns. We need affordable housing for my generation, for those young people who have gone abroad who want to come home and build a life, and for the people I went to school with who want to raise a family. Rural planning needs to be loosened. We need to give GAA clubs and rural schools a chance. We need to repopulate rural Ireland and allow those of us who can get a site in rural Ireland to not have to jump through ridiculous hoops to be able to build in our own parish and our own home. Now is the time for urgency, now is the time for action.

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It is €20 to get back in.

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It is €20 to rejoin us.

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