Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)

The Minister mentioned social housing. HAP is clearly providing homes to people on that basis but we need to be moving away from a reliance on HAP. We are now in a position where there is almost €500 million a year going to that. That is going to landlords; it is not invested in new social housing. Does the Minister think we need to put more effort into ensuring that the supply of social housing is higher and end this overreliance on HAP?