Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has said that the Budget has failed to resolve the housing crisis.
The crisis "permeates every facet of Irish life", he told the Dáil, with "children growing up in emergency accommodation".
It has resulted in "businesses who can't get workers, schools who can't get teachers, guards, nurses, members of our defense forces leaving their profession because they can't find somewhere to live", he said.
"This should have been a Budget to resolve the housing crisis. But today, Minister McGrath and Minister Donohoe have failed in that regard", he added.
"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", he said.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has said the Government is trying to "dazzle" the electorate with one-off measures in Budget 2024.
However, he said working people will be worse-off by the end of the day.
The Dún Laoghaire TD said the Coalition is still refusing to deal with the profiteering of banks and energy companies.
He said it is "very depressing" that the Government will not allocate "billions more" to tackle the housing and infrastructure deficits.
Separately, Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall said she is concerned that the additional spending in the Budget will not be targeted at those who need it the most.
She said the Budget will be judged on whether it is fair, but she is very concerned it will not be the right quantum to provide the required financial supports for disability services, pensions and social welfare as well as tackling child poverty.
Fine Gael TD for Dún Laoghaire and Minister of State with responsibility for Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance Jennifer Carroll MacNeill described Budget 2024 as "serious", but that reflects the softening in the economy.
She said that the Government had to manage the inflationary pressures and getting money back into people's pockets so they can meet the challenges over the next winter, and this Budget will "address those challenges and make sure we are managing the economy in a serious way".
She said that Ireland was one of the few economies around EU that has a surplus and has full employment, but there has to be management of the twin challenges.
"The opposition will say it’s a squandered opportunity, which will only demonstrate how unserious they are about the management of the twin challenges."
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Speaking on RTÉ's Budget 2024 programme, Sinn Féin TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn said the challenge for people, whether running a hospital, business or school is the housing crisis.
"You just do not see the ambition; you do not see the plan to get us beyond this crisis. You get a sense they do not get the scale of the emergency we are facing."
"21,000 social and affordable houses that is 7,300 more than the Government's plan, so we are getting the scale of the crisis", he said when speaking about his party's alternative budget.
Also speaking on the budget panel, Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe said the economy has come through Covid-19, Brexit, an international inflation crisis and a war in Ukraine, yet still supported the creation of jobs throughout giving the country the ability to respond.
"What we have to do is balance the needs of people who are out there who are trying to struggle with the cost of living with managing a very successful economy."
Minister for Housing Darragh O Brien said that the budget allocation for housing is the largest ever.
He acknowledged a discrepancy in the number of landlords recorded by the CSO and the Residental Tenancy Board RTB and said the two organisations will be meeting later in the year to see if that can be rectified
