Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

I want to go back to the detailed Revised Estimates Volume that was laid before the House on Tuesday this week. I want to refer to it to make things easier. One of the things that is helpful about the Estimates for social housing is that there are very clear targets. We know the target for new builds, acquisitions, leasing, HAP and RAS.

We have never had clarity on the individual targets for affordable housing schemes. We know from the Government's housing plan that the target for this year is 6,400 new-build units. The figure of 6,400 units on page 2 of the REV, under public service activity outputs, refers to a number of subheads, A28, A38, A32 and A35. What I hope the Minister can do, because it is directly related to how we then track allocations versus outputs and delivery, is to give us a breakdown within that figure of 6,400 units of the following: cost rental, in both the LDA and AHB sectors, affordable purchase units in the local government sector and the first homes scheme. This last aspect is interesting because in the previous REVs, first homes scheme units were loan approvals. That language has now changed and it looks like it is going to be purchases rather than approvals because it refers to "homes delivered". I ask the Minister to clarify that aspect.

Just for the purposes of scrutinising, I think we need to get to the stage of having the same degree of clarity on affordable housing targets and outputs as we currently have on social housing. Maybe we can start with this question.