Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will come back to the build point as the Deputy spoke about an over-reliance on HAP. It was the first question he asked. If the output for the first six months of the year for local authority building was maintained for the rest of the year, it would not be good enough. I know from my experience in the job last year how the programme was delivered over the course of the year and ramped up significantly quarter on quarter. This year we will do ten times the number of local authority builds that we did only two or three years ago. It is ramping up significantly and over the course of Rebuilding Ireland, we will increase the stock of social housing homes by 50,000. That is real and it will help people. It will take away from the over-reliance on HAP currently. HAP will always be there and that kind of support in the private rental sector - using taxpayers' money to give people State support - will always exist but it should not be there to degree it is now. We did not come from a perfect State and we came from a crisis to a crisis. We cannot forget that or we will make the same mistake again in future.