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10th October 2023
03:53pm BST

"Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have caused the housing crisis and today's budget is further confirmation that they are not the ones to fix it. We needed a budget for renters, instead we got a budget for landlords. A Sinn Féin government would have introduced a budget that would have got to grips with the housing crisis.[caption id="attachment_783779" align="alignnone" width="640"]
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Finance Pearse Doherty TD, as Sinn Féin launched their Alternative Budget 2023 in the Clayton Hotel, Dublin. Photograph: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie.[/caption]
"The housing crisis is the government's greatest failure and ending the housing crisis is Sinn Fein's number one priority.
"Under this government, entire generations of people have been locked out of home ownership. More than two-thirds of young people are forced to live with their parents and more of them are reaching the conclusion that their future is not here but elsewhere."
Doherty went on to highlight that the housing minister Darragh O'Brien has "missed every single target on affordable housing."
Once again, Doherty brought up landlords, saying that the current government are "always on the side of the landlords"
"Why should a nurse be taxed more than a landlord?"
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