Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

If local authorities can get to the target of delivering 12,000 social houses across the country, I think there is an area of another, say, 6,000 to 7,000 with some sort of State support. I am not evading the question, but the issue is that there is no single housing market in Ireland. The housing market and housing demand in Wexford are different from those in Dublin. Different solutions are needed in different areas. To give a raw number does not reflect the local and regional variation and the different supports that are needed in different parts of the country.