Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We need more volume but we also need local authorities to work more closely with the affordable housing schemes and to allow them to get on with their job. Most of their difficulties are not with central Government or Departments, but with local authorities. In fairness, we have provided resources and are prepared to assist them. As the construction industry finds the heat going out of the market at ends that were perhaps more profitable to it, we have been emphasising that it would be more attractive and successful for the industry to move to social and affordable housing. I hope the construction industry will do so.

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