Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Could a longer period be considered to help reduce costs? There are people who do not qualify for social housing, cannot buy a house and cannot pay market rents. Many people are living in box bedrooms. There is an entire box bedroom generation. Maybe we need to tease out the question of the period more. Deputy Ó Broin will probably do so.

Capacity is another issue. We could do with quadrupling capacity, given the market that exists. If the witnesses’ bodies were asked to increase capacity, what target could they achieve in a reasonable time or would the sky be the limit?