Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy's party has quite a lot of support in this city. Perhaps he will encourage it to try to press the issue along.

Record levels of funding are being provided for social and affordable housing programmes. Additional funding has been secured in the budget. The provision for this year is in excess of €2 billion, which is more than double the expenditure when the Planning and Development Act 2000 was introduced. The needs of some 14,000 households have been met from funding for social and affordable housing this year——

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