Thomas Gould (Cork North-Central, Sinn Fein)

Just to clarify, when the ESRI and others produced data last September that showed the Government was not going to hit its targets the then Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for housing, Deputy O'Brien, used data from a German bank or some other body. The then Taoiseach and Tánaiste would not take the ESRI's information and now the Minister is telling us he is being realistic in listening to the ESRI. We need clarity from the Government. Is the Taoiseach now accepting that what the ESRI said was correct? Someone is right and someone is wrong, and I think the Minister is right. I think he is being honest, but it is easy to be honest in regard to affordability when we are four years away from a general election.