Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Local authorities have bought back many houses in the past year, in fairness to them, and I compliment the witnesses representing local authorities on that. It is very good. Do the local authorities intend to buy back many more local authority housing units? They have bought in both areas: private housing and local authority housing. Will that be a big thing this year? Will local authorities have the money again to buy houses rather than build them? Many houses were bought last year.