Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Regarding my second question, we have been critical of the ESRI in some ways today. Economists can only put forward the views they hold and I accept that the contribution that was made was limited to one area, but it was right for us to consider the broader issues as well.

I would be interested in hearing about scaling up cost rental. It was right to say that the current supply was limited, given that the model is only being legislated for now. How can we scale it up? Will the witnesses also answer the question about social mix? We would not allow any other sort of mono-income or mono-tenure criterion. Therefore, there should at least be a percentage of social housing in every cost-rental block to provide mixed-income developments just as there would be in a private or social housing estate.