Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, that has not been determined yet. The reason is the ESRI is doing a piece of work for the Government at the moment to give us some perspective on what housing output will be and what the need for homes will be across the coming years. Then the Government in its entirety will make a decision on revised housing targets for the next number of years. As part of that and coming out of it, we will then have the information for what the private sector will deliver and what the State will deliver. I have always acknowledged, as has the Government, that while the increased number of homes we are delivering is positive, it is of course evident we need to build even more homes. We have accepted exceeding those targets is positive, but we need to look at whether those targets can be increased further. That is what the Taoiseach was making reference to.