Batt O'Keeffe (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

——and we will continue to work to ensure house prices come down and more land is made available. That is happening as we speak. The Department is not idle. It is currently examining the NESC and other recent reports. It is paying considerable attention to the proceedings of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution on private property, which has a bearing on the housing sector. It is considering new measures that will be desirable both in the short and medium terms. These will shortly come before the Government.

Much was made last night of the level of outputs being achieved under social and affordable housing programmes. We are currently delivering numbers of social and affordable housing that have not been seen in a generation.

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