Ms Laura Behan:

It is important to look at the context of social housing having been delivered for almost 100 years within the State. The social housing delivery mechanisms are well established. Within local authorities, it is a well-oiled machine at this stage. We introduced the local authority affordable purchase scheme in 2021 with the Affordable Housing Act. We started out in 2022 with 350 affordable purchase homes and expect to have over 1,000 this year. In ramping up an entirely new system of housing, local authorities have done extremely well to deliver the numbers they have. It might be useful to tell the Deputy that the pipeline for local authority affordable purchase includes 4,500 already approved for funding over the next three years. We are constantly seeing schemes coming in-----