Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The LDA is delivering real homes. I have been on site. I have been in the completed buildings. I have met the people who were moving into those homes. At long last, we are seeing that on the ground with the LDA, our public builder and developer, producing those homes.

We will make sure the LDA is adequately capitalised to continue that programme and to make sure we can develop places like, for example, the old Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, where we can build the best part of a thousand new homes for people in this city. There are projects in Cork as well and all over the country. This is very much happening on the ground. We will make sure the LDA is adequately capitalised. It is an off-balance sheet transaction that does not need to be done as part of budget day announcements.

While I do not want to get into statistical arguments with the Deputy as I do not think there is much point in either of us doing that, the figure she used of two thirds of people of a certain age group living at home has been discounted. That was a Eurostat figure that was not correct. The CSO figures have come out since then and the figure is closer to a third than two thirds.

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