Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said, I came from Knocknaheeny, but I now live in Gurranabraher which is just below it. It was built 85 years ago. It was one of the old Cork Corporation social housing schemes. Why are local authorities not being mandated to deliver direct build? Why are local authorities not hiring staff and building their own? That is what we did in Cork and right across the country. We need a return to a percentage of direct builds by local authorities to help get us to where we need to be.

We had housing targets this year. In 2022, the target was 30,000. Every indicator would tell the Department we need to be hitting at least 50,000.