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

I would not necessarily agree with the Deputy's last comment. What we are looking for on this is that we write down the debts on specific sites for the delivery of affordable and social housing. These are on sites that are delivered already. The Deputy is correct that it will help in the viability of those.

Obviously, the first piece we want to look at is the social housing piece to make sure that we are activating those sites. There are some very good sites out there - the Deputy referenced Cork - right across the country that, because they hold a legacy debt, they have not been able to develop them out. We will work that through. Based on the Estimate being passed, we can move towards that reallocation. We will work with the local authorities on seeing which sites we can develop and they are the ones I will focus on.