Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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I congratulate Mr. O'Connor on his tenure as chair. Hopefully he can leave here unblemished and have a successful tenure. I pay tribute to the Housing Alliance for its important work in providing housing. Approved housing bodies across the country have a success story to tell. It is great to see that it is continuing and the scale of their ambition. I have two key questions. It does not matter who takes them. They project 4,350 homes for this year. Over nine years, that would be probably 39,000. Would it be fair to say that they will probably far surpass the target of 21,500 in the Housing for All programme?