Mr. Graham Doyle:

When it comes to developing housing or any infrastructure, it will ultimately take its lead from the national planning framework in trying to create that housing infrastructure - if we are being specific about housing - in accordance with the principles that are outlined in that. There is a lot of change that continues to take place in Ireland. This is probably a good time to update the national planning framework. Nobody expects anything other than housing targets increasing as a consequence, but there are a lot of figures out there and they are all based on a lot of different assumptions around population, house size, immigration, etc. Different sets of assumptions generate different levels of targets.

Everyone keeps referring to the 33,000. In fact, that was an average over ten years. We hope the 33,000 is reached quite early in that ten-year cycle. By the end of Housing for All, that ten-year programme, the target is actually in excess of 40,000. There is a lot of talk about targets. The truth of the matter is the State has to try and deliver as much housing as it possibly can and grow the capacity to do that over the next number of years.