Mr. Brian Geaney:

People are talking about a housing crisis since 2015. It has obviously taken a while for local authorities to build a pipeline. We now have a very significant pipeline to deliver on social housing. We have the affordable housing scheme in place. As referenced earlier, in 2020 we had a borrowing facility of €40 million available to finance some of the schemes and get them up and running. We want to be doing more affordable housing and I think we will. We are going to build that pipeline like we built that social housing pipeline. There also needs to be a mix of purely private housing in the city that is more affordable because we want to get more mixed tenure into the city. We want to get some of those planning permissions that are in place activated for people who want to live and work in the city, to provide a long-term home on a stable basis.