Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I expect all local authorities to be ambitious, and they are. We are asking them to take a lead role in the delivery of affordable homes. I visited many of the sites in Ballymun with the Deputy. There is a real opportunity there. I am asking our local authorities - and we are working with them - to bring forward sites and deliver affordable, cost-rental and social homes, but we also need a tenure mix. We have opportunities thanks to the land that we own. The affordable housing fund is open right now and our local authorities know what they will have for investing in social homes on a multi-annual basis. They have a view right up to 2026. That is important.

Once we have agreed our housing delivery plans with our local authorities, I intend for there to be full transparency in each local authority area across the country about what we are asking them to deliver. All members of this committee and, as importantly, public representatives at local authority level know what they need to deliver in each of their areas.