Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Admittedly some of them may not be in the proper locations and some of them may not be committed but it is an offer of 4,000 units.

The social and public housing programme is clearly too low and it is not meeting the demand we have. When Ireland was building 100,000 houses when 30,000 were needed, clearly the private sector area was very expensive, to put it mildly. The housing assistance payments scheme, which will be of interest to local authorities, will be tested in a number of pilot areas beginning in Limerick and should be law by the summer. The question of having more public housing capacity available and the question of income limits will all form part of the discussions and proposals that come from Members on the housing debate-----

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