Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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When this Dáil started in February 2020, the only toolbox that the local authorities had was to build social housing. If the council was going to build a development, that is all it could provide and everybody in that estate was going to be earning less than €42,000, and the limit was lower again in some parts of the country. Inevitably, the only tool available to the councils was to build low income, concentrated housing. Now, with Housing for All, they have the ability to develop their own mixed income, mixed tenure estates, so all of those restrictions and perceptions of what a local authority has done are gone. Local authorities are now liberated to build the type of estates that perhaps officials always argued they wanted. Would that be a fair assessment?