James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

Affordable housing is providing very important housing solutions for people. Since Housing for All was launched, 14,500 affordable housing solutions have been delivered via approved housing bodies, local authorities, the LDA, the first home scheme and a number of other schemes. We have exceeded our target for this year, which is important. Affordable housing forms a very important mix in ensuring that no matter where people are in society, there is a housing solution for them, whether it is social, cost rental, affordable purchase or supports for people to be able to buy their own home in their own right. Affordable purchase remains a very important part of what we are doing and what we want to do, in seeing and ensuring those affordable units are being made available on a balanced regional basis to ensure that everybody who needs an opportunity has that access to it.