Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Spring and the Government are relying on the banks and the private sector to fill this enormous gap in the construction of housing units.

Given his own caution about getting back into this market again, does Mr. Brown believe realistically that the banks, collectively, are going to provide the sort of finance that will fill the enormous gap in housing construction that is needed at an affordable level?