Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Okay. As an aspect of that, Mr. Went, can I ask you, in relation to the price of a home ... because you were experts in this field and evidence to this inquiry show that between 1996 and 2006 the price of an ordinary home increased each year for ten years by the equivalent of the average industrial wage.

And that's an astonishing, I think you will agree, perhaps, statistic.