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

It is very important. It is being led by the Department of Finance. We have got the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019 beginning Second Stage next week in the Dáil, which is very important. There is no question about there being money in Rebuilding Ireland for housing bodies to do the work they need to do. I have been quite clear on that all along. We can deal with the classification issue in a way that will not impact on funding coming in to the housing bodies sector to continue to do what we want to do, which is to get to 12,000 social housing homes a year, every year. We are almost at that.

On Part V, it is currently at 10%. With the changes we made around introducing the Land Development Agency, we locked in a requirement for 40% social and affordable across any public land that is being developed for housing. Now is not the time to do that on private sites, in my opinion, but it is something we are keeping under review.