Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Can I move on to the spend for a second and the targets? The quarter 2 figures show that on the affordable housing scheme there were just 22 actual affordable homes provided in the first six months. The quarter 3 figures that came out yesterday show 262 affordable homes were provided in the State in the first three quarters of this year. I will do a quick calculation. That is roughly 7%. We have reached 7% of the target of 3,500 affordable homes in the first nine months of this year. Those are the figures that were released yesterday by the Department. In the area of social housing 2,642 or 29% of the target was reached at the end of quarter 3.

You are not even coming near 50% of the target. Only 7% of the affordable homes target was reached. That is an appalling record. I am not being smart here, but that jumps off the page at me.