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

I am sorry to tell Mr. O’Rourke the average house price is €590,000. It is shocking. I know he is from the area.

As a supplementary question, I understand the agency is bound by its mandate but Mr. O’Rourke’s answer is very revealing and, frankly, alarming. I do not blame him for that but it really is alarming. We have the biggest and only large development site planned, it is the first one on the LDA's list and we have been fighting for 15 years to get public housing on it, yet we still do not have an answer on when it is starting and we do not know what the affordable rents will be or what the prices will be. I genuinely do not blame Mr. O’Rourke but I blame the Government. That is worrying. It is not a great start.