Mr. Pat Fitzpatrick:

On the point raised by Deputy Durkan about the turnaround on houses and throwing out good valuable materials, where people want to move into a house they should be allowed to move in and turn it around very quickly. Houses should not be left vacant for 30 weeks, with lovely doors and windows that have to be changed because they are not the right colour. That should be stopped. That is waste. Wilful waste makes woeful want and we have a woeful want of housing in this country.

The Housing Finance Agency is sitting on a load of money, in excess of €10 billion. It should make money available to build some of the social housing that is needed. It is very important that we see reaction and action, reaction to the crisis and action by the developers and everyone because we all have skin in this game.