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

I will ask the Deputy about the person who has missed the three-day look-back. I have not seen that correspondence and I ask the Deputy to get it to me directly.

The Deputy asked for a look-back and I brought one in, which was fair. Nobody had done that before, by the way. The purchase for tenants in situhas ramped up. The reason we were phasing out leasing, and I answered Senator Cummins on that, is that we have targeted leasing now because we are building more social homes. We have shown in Housing for All how we are phasing out leasing into the future but we will use it as a mechanism to keep people out of homelessness. Where local authorities can enter into advance purchase arrangements for both affordable and social housing, they are encouraged to do so. I know in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, there is a particular pressure point as well because of the lack of availability of land and the cost of land and property in that area. However, that does not negate or prevent problems that have been occurring everywhere else across the country from appearing also in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. We also have the affordable housing fund in place and it is making a difference.

The development levy piece is about activation. We need more stock across the board. We need more supply. Supply increased by 10,000 in one year, from 20,000 to 30,000 units. We want to go further on that and I make no excuse for using any weapon in the armoury in an effort to ramp up delivery of private, social and affordable housing.

I ask the Deputy to send to me directly details of the case he raised.