Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his presentation earlier. I have to agree. We have had the argument on the voids so I will not go back over all of that again. There is general disagreement on that. I fully agree with the remarks on the description of re-letting of a property.

There will be a percentage of those every year. In every county a case like that arises, where an elderly couple die who have lived in the same property for 40 years, and it will cost over €30,000 to bring the property back into use. That does not add to the stock of local property houses. We may have to look at voids and find a better way to describe them.

The Minister said that 3,200 social housing units delivered in 2017, made up of 2,350 from local authorities and 850 from approved housing bodies. The only figures available to us are from quarter three. Quarter four figures are still-----