Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is the intention. I should stress that because we have a rapidly growing population we will always need temporary accommodation and prefabs are a response to that need but they should not become a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I was very harsh on Ministers of the time about the prefab programme but part of the problem in the years of the construction boom was that many builders did not want to be doing supervised tax compliant work for the Department when they could do some crazy type of development that was not subject to the same rigours of inspection or scrutiny. Therefore, tender figures were very high and I suspect that part and parcel of the only answer to meet a problem was the prefab one, but that situation has clearly changed.