It came amid a series of interruptions in the Dáil.

Mary Butler said that investors will have to help plug the gap in funding as government is under further pressure to ramp up the number of new builds.

Sinead Gibney, who is running as a candidate for the Social Democrats, said housing, climate and Gaza have been the three main issues on cavesing.

The Government has been criticised over immigration policy with 70 asylum seekers staying in tents pitched along Dublin's Grand Canal