Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Sure. I did not name anybody. He said the cost of the units Hines intends to deliver later than expected - 26 months for the first phase is a long time - was approximately €400,000 per unit. These are mostly apartments. If they are costing him €400,000, what will they cost people in the area? Whatever it is will be in excess of €400,000, which is totally unaffordable for the vast majority of people who are affected by the current housing crisis. Whether they are working people on average earnings or even those earning up to €80,000 a year, it is way beyond what they can afford. What the hell is the point of that? We have fanfare about the delivery of the biggest residential development in the State, but the vast bulk of it will be completely unaffordable. What does the Minister say about that?

I have just been struck by something I find slightly worrying. Outside the window where we were, there were trucks with lights flashing and a digger. I went down afterwards to see what it was doing. It was doing absolutely nothing. It was literally waving its arm around and moving a few stones from one place to another because nothing was actually happening on the site. This was done for the optics of the cameras. They have been sitting on that site for years and we now discover the latest date they are giving us is 26 months. What the hell is happening here?