Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair, and I want to thank Ms Timmons, Mr. Ó Coigligh, Ms Stapleton and their team for being here today and for laying out what they have achieved and done. However, we still have a major issue; we have a housing crisis. We have a Government now past its mid-term in office. There is huge expectation, understandably and rightly, from people who cannot either afford or access social housing. They cannot afford to rent, and they cannot afford to take up employment in our major cities. That is the reality of it.

We need to get back to some of the basics. We can lose the run of ourselves, clapping ourselves on the back. I do not know if anyone saw RTÉ's documentary last night. I want to pay tribute to RTÉ, but to see so many people in the city of Dublin homeless, with no feeling of support or access, is shocking. I thank the media, per se, for the way it has continued to shine a light on this housing crisis. It has been responsible and, yes, it has made people uncomfortable but rightly so. We have a crisis, and we must not lose sight of that.

Could Ms Timmons tell me - for instance in Dublin Fingal, the constituency of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien - how many social houses were built last year in Dublin Fingal?