Mr. Tom Parlon:

We are now on our third Minister for housing who has promised to do a lot. The big initial challenge is to get support for money to be put into the system. We believe there are now funds there to provide social housing. There is a very frustrating delay in the State organising local authorities or housing agencies to get those tenders out and I reiterate that I guarantee that members of the CIF, whether contractors or specialist house builders, are waiting to tender and will do so very competitively but it is painfully slow for those tenders to come out. We need hundreds of developments of 50 to 100 units of apartments if we are going to get the required volume.