Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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It is a really important consideration. The affordability factor can be considered in terms of how much one is paying in one's mortgage or rent. If that house is miles away and one is incurring €100 a week in petrol or diesel costs, or the minute one turns on the heating, one is heating the back garden or the attic, such aspects of affordability have to be counted.

Did Mr. Coleman say Shanganagh is the largest passive house scheme in Europe? That is quite impressive. It kind of deals with the argument where you hear some commentators saying that the LDA will buy these rubbishy, build-to-rent and low-standard ones. It is encouraging to hear that the LDA has got a very high standard, and a high bar that has to be got past before engaging in Project Tosaigh.