James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

I thank Deputy Cooney. On our overall 2025 targets, I have publicly stated that at this point it is going to be extremely challenging and probably not realistic to meet them. We are starting from much further behind than I would have expected. When the targets were drawn up we would have been expecting delivery for last year to be much higher but it was considerably lower. That was very disappointing and has obviously had an impact on the delivery of homes people desperately need. As a consequence, to move from a little over 30,000 to 41,000 is simply not realistic and that would seem to be the general analysis out there. It is still very early in the year but when you look at the trajectory I think we will increase the delivery in the number of homes over last year, but the overall target is very challenging.