Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am speaking as a person who has read many of the academic books on homelessness, housing and social housing. To sit here and have somebody accuse me of not having read them is very offensive.

I really believe, because we are dealing with social housing, that we need to speak to somebody within the social housing section of Dublin City Council and the local authorities as to why people in communities are reluctant to allow social housing to be built in communities and the reason there is such strong objection to modular housing. I suggest that somebody from the councils should come before the committee to identify the reasons residents in areas where there is an accumulation of social housing are set against social housing being built and, in particular, modular housing. I would like to see somebody appear before the committee from Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Fingal County Council and all those who deal with social housing on a daily basis.