Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

I am pleased the Deputy asked me about the number of houses and the 20% because there has been misrepresentation of the facts regarding the 20%. One must understand that it does not apply to a development of under five houses, a development on lands of 0.1 hectare or to housing on land not zoned for development purposes. Voluntary housing bodies are excluded and there are some ten year planning permissions in force where the Part V delivery did not account for it. If there is delivery of, say, 75,000 housing units in 2007, 25,000 of those will be one-off housing and 10,000 will be made up of social and affordable housing. There is also the voluntary aspect and other issues involved. It is important to state that the type of figures that have been bandied about are not inaccurate and the progress to date has been significant. Does the Deputy want me to answer the question on the amount of money collected?

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