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

It is great to have the Minister and Minister of State with us to discuss the realities of Housing for All. When we first saw it, we saw a plan. We also saw a multi-annual budget, which is crucial to the delivery of many of these housing solutions. When Housing for All is broken down programme by programme, with a funding stream assigned to each, phrases like "Croí Cónaithe", "First Homes", "Project Tosaigh" and so on start coming to life. That is welcome.

Many members of the committee, especially those on the Government side, feel that a significant body of work has been done over the past two years in trying to deliver legislation that gave approved housing bodies, AHBs, local authorities, the Land Development Agency, LDA, and others the ability to deliver a wide range of solutions for housing. Having all of the various programmes is key. Sometimes, the housing crisis is painted as one problem with one solution, but we know that there is much more to it than that. That said, we can see from these Estimates a significant commitment to the idea of public housing and different types of solution that allow communities like mine to deliver mixed-income housing. That is crucial. I come from a community in Ballymun and Finglas that was built as a solution to a housing crisis in previous decades. We know that we did not get everything right in such communities. Perhaps we put in too many houses and not enough supports and there was not the right mix in some areas. This is why I welcome each of the tools. AHBs and local authorities must now use them together to deliver on the ground.

I wish to ask about delivery. A figure of €4 billion is referenced. It comes from €2.6 billion in capital funding as well as funding from the Housing Finance Agency, HFA, and the LDA. I will give the Minister an opportunity to expand on that a little and explain the sources of that funding. Am I correct in saying that they are all State sources?