Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

As I said at the outset, our policy has been to increase supply — we have done so. We used to build approximately 25,000 houses per year and we now build 80,000 per year. Affordability is a key issue for the Government. In fairness to the Government, it amended Part V of the Planning and Development Act and also launched the affordable housing initiative.

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