The social partners have been misled over the number of social and affordable houses built, according to the Labour Party President Michael D Higgins.
In a speech to a 1,000 delegates at Labour's annual conference in the Helix in Dublin, Mr Higgins said 40,000 affordable houses were promised but only 3,000 have been provided.
The Labour Party's Brendan Howlan (seated)shares a joke with TD's Joan Burton, Liz McManus, Pat Rabbitte Labour Party leader and Ruairi Quinn in the Helix theatre in DCU last night.
"Labour in government would not have allowed this failure to happen. We would have provided the houses to which we were committed."
Mr Higgins said with Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats in government "there will never be a fundamental change in the scandalous scourge of housing speculation, or the corrupt inflation of the price of building land."
He said the principle of the right to home must be accepted. He said irreparable damage had been done by putting housing out of the reach of those who wish to have a home.
Mr Higgins was also critical of the plan to build private hospitals on the grounds of public hospital.
He said Labour in Government would abandon this plan which would result in "a tax avoidance opportunity for the wealthy and will remove a public asset from public ownership."
"Mary Harney would have us believe that these private investments will solve the crisis in our hospitals. None of these hospitals will have accident and emergency departments and the most they will achieve is some reduction in waiting times for non emergency treatments," Mr Higgins said.
He added that making profit from the sickness industry may be acceptable to a Fianna Fail/PD government, but it is not acceptable to us.