Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Riddle me this; while I do not want to go back to the 1970s, there was less mechanisation at that time and, in many ways, it was harder to get things done. Despite that, we were constructing a number in the region of 7,500 or 8,000 a year. In a period of great housing demand, what has happened that has resulted in local authorities only being able to construct less than a quarter of what they constructed in the 1970s?

Why is that the case in a year when there was a large budget and a large underspend?