Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

Was it not the case that the housing plan essentially provided a form of multi-annual funding in the sense that the outgoing Government committed to a set amount of expenditure over the lifetime of the plan? There are annual targets and we know that local authorities and AHBs must work on multi-annual cycles, so everybody had visibility on the number of units that were to be funded and the overall size of the fund. Surely it is a real problem if the Minister is getting significant resistance to those commitments that his predecessor Government and predecessor Minister made public in the housing plan. Surely the whole point of that plan is to say that bit is ring-fenced for delivery and meeting targets, given that the Government says it is a priority.