Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are between 10,000 and 15,000 people on the housing waiting list in Galway city. We will not build any houses this year. If we are lucky, we will complete 14, but I do not think we will. Two thirds of a parcel of land that is zoned residential is frozen and cannot be touched. This increases the intensity of the problem. I understand there are difficulties between the Department and the local authority, which wanted 69 houses to go ahead but was not given permission for them. I will not use the few minutes available to me to get into that. I am highlighting what I have been told. If we use the problems in Galway as an illustration of what is happening in the rest of the country, it is not clear that there is a national housing crisis?