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

It is a frustration on our side. The legislative and funding work has been done so now we expect to have the houses in six months; I appreciate that this is not possible. The Kildonan Road site is in Finglas and everybody is saying the social housing component will absolutely go ahead and there is no problem but there are still some questions on the affordable housing site. Again, there are other sites, such as the Whitehall car park site. We have been talking about a development there for a long time. It is the same with the port tunnel sites. There is just a fear that the ambition is not there.

The final point I will make is that additional staff were allocated to every local authority but additional staff have not yet been allocated to Dublin.

I think the main reason was they were setting their housing targets but that is where we need to be giving additional staff. We need to be pushing additional staff on the local authorities, whether they like it or not, to increase the overall capacity. There was an opportunity to answer the staffing question.