Mr. John O'Connor:

I thank Deputy Gould for the questions. We need to deliver thousands of units. It needs to be done over the long term. Year-on-year, we need to deliver a few thousand cost-rental homes. The Deputy asked specifically about Cork and giving hope now. Two of the developments that were approved for delivery over the next year under the cost-rental equity loan scheme are in Cork city. Some of the LIHAF developments are in Cork. However, we need it throughout the country to deliver affordable houses for purchase and cost-rental homes. We need to do it on scale to give people more hope and expectation to be able to avail of affordable home purchase or cost-rental homes.