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

The Deputy will also be aware that for some local authorities, particularly those in urban areas, it makes absolute sense to provide social homes and public housing on private land. It also makes sense to partner with AHBs to deliver homes faster in certain areas. The Deputy keeps coming back to this idea - and it might attract good headlines - that there is a local authority that has not built one social home in the year to date. What I will ask the Deputy to do is to look at the facts at the end of the year. I will be quite happy to answer these questions when we see the actual end-of-year figures for the delivery of social homes to families by AHBs and local authorities. The Deputy continues to try to make a distinction between both of these approaches and I am curious as to why he wishes to do this.