Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Here is the problem. I asked two very reasonable questions. One was whether the Minister is concerned by the rising cost of homes under the affordable housing scheme and cost rental because the agencies delivering those homes are concerned. I also asked him whether he has any plans to try to bring down those costs because a growing number of households for which these schemes are meant to be delivering are actually excluded. People on incomes below €75,000 cannot get onto the scheme in respect of the 400 LDA apartments at Citywest. For the affordable purchase homes, as they are called, in my constituency, a gross income of between €90,000 and €100,000 is needed, according to the local authority. When I asked the Minister those two questions, and I am deliberately not being belligerent today, he refused to answer them.