Joe Flaherty (Fianna Fail)

I thank Ms Behan for endeavouring to answer the question about voids. It is disappointing, for a discussion on voids, that we do not have somebody from the Department able to address the issues specifically. I know affordable housing is her area. I am concerned that the €8 million overrun is causing huge problems financially for Longford. We would have seen the quarter 2 social housing report delivered yesterday evening. I am concerned that this is impacting on the performance. I appreciate I am only comparing six months here with 2024 performance. We had 42 new builds in 2024 in Longford and none so far this year. We had 25 acquisitions and only four this year. RAS was at 27 last year and nine this year. We had 31 HAP last year and none this year. All told, there were 127 social housing units last year. If we add in the voids, that is 170. At six months this year, we just have 16 units and no voids. Is this issue down to the fact that we have that funding issue or are other issues at play here?