Mr. John McCarthy:

There certainly is a national housing crisis in the country as a whole. In 2016, a pot of resources was made available to us for housing purposes. While there was some small carry-over from 2015 into 2016, we used every single euro that was available to us in 2016 to respond to housing issues. The extent to which those issues play out in different local authority areas varies. I am talking from a national perspective. The Deputy talked about transferring what is happening in a local context in Galway into the national context. My point is that the national context sees a pot of resources made available to us. We put a range of schemes in place. We engage proactively with local authorities and approved housing bodies. We use wisely every resource that is available to us.