Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

There are only 40 housing authorities or thereabouts. It is not a difficult sum. What is the total number of applicants? The Minister of State should not take us for fools. He has that information and he is withholding it from the House. Give the House the information. I have asked the Minister of State for the number of applicants for local authority and other forms of social housing and the gross total. He should spit it out and tell the House what he knows.

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