Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I ask Mr. McCarthy to stay with me. Nothing went into Galway city for direct social housing. We got quarterly reports. This is all factual. We got columns showing what was proposed, the amount of money, and in the final column it said "construction suspended" on every single quarterly report from 2010 forward. That is one of the major reasons we have a housing crisis. It is one of the ingredients. The State stopped building houses. Now we are going forward and Mr. McCarthy is telling me the figure is €423 million for this year on HAP alone.