Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Housing policy is set by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The Minister of State at the Department, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, will make the case for the housing side. There is a dichotomy between, on the one hand, the large number of people on the housing list and, on the other, a large number of empty houses. One of the problems is that many of the empty houses are in the wrong place. We need to link the two and the Minister of State is working hard on this issue.