Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can we go back to that issue of speeding up supply for a moment? Based on what we have seen for the first two quarters of the year, the Department has struggled to hit 1,666 builds by the local authority. One of the things that strikes me with the multitude of schemes, and I am sure it is the same with the Department, is that locally, they increase that in the local authorities, which we can see in housing departments. It looks well populated compared to, we will say, a number of years ago, but they are tied up in all these schemes. They are tied up administering. Both technical and clerical staff are tied up in terms of dealing with the multitude of schemes. They are dealing with a number of issues, although I cannot speak for all of them. The picture I have across some local authorities is that a number of people are dealing directly with the builds, which they have to. I am not against turnkey homes. The problem is that it is pulling homes out of the private sector, particularly starter homes that people would-----