Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the committee members, I thank the witnesses for the work they are doing. They might bring that thanks and acknowledgment back to their staff who are out in the fields the whole time designing, building and maintaining that really good resident liaison and relationship they have. It is incredibly important.

I finally got to tot up those figures we received earlier. Correct me if I am wrong, but the figure I have is somewhere in or around 30,000 units. Over the next three to five years, we are looking at another approximately 18,000 to 20,000 units, which are urgently needed. If we add that to the LDA proposals, local authority Part Vs and other deliveries, however, it shows a good pipeline. It is never enough and never fast enough. We all live by that. It is important to have that really good quality design I see from approved housing bodies. When I sat on a council and people came in to make presentations, we could see that a huge thought process had gone into the plans. These are homes, not just units and houses.

I ask Mr. Hannigan for a quarterly update. That would be really helpful for us. It does not need to be massively in-depth in detail, but similar to what the LDA provides for us on a quarterly basis. That would be really helpful. I thank everyone for their attendance today.