Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

Last year, for the full year there were 2,900. Those figures can be broken down if the Deputy wishes. Unfortunately, one of the ploys used is to consider the four different schemes and only refer to figure of output for one of them. In the first six months for affordable houses under Part V, which is one of our schemes, there were 367 units. I do not have the output for social housing, because the Deputy's question was not about that. If he is telling me it was 616 and that was up to 20%, it would indicate that approximately 3,000 of the 44,000 were eligible for Part V. As we discussed the matter last week and in other places, we know that approximately a quarter of house production is made up of one-off houses in the country. Another significant proportion is taken up by old planning permissions, granted prior to the coming into force of Part V. Many more of them are small developments under four and some are on land that is not zoned in towns and villages where Part V does not apply. Working from the 616 figure, approximately 3,000 of the 44,000 at this stage were eligible for Part V. As the old planning permissions die out in the coming years, obviously the figure will be much higher.

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