Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

To date, 9,300 social and affordable homes have been delivered under Part V, with activity increasing in this area. While the charge has been made about these houses not being available in the future, and while I understand this to be the case, 9,300 have been delivered. For 2007, the number of affordable houses, leaving out social houses, was 3,539, which is a significant number. I understand this did not meet the target of 5,000 but we are in a position to state there will be an increase in that number in 2008. While we do not have the full figures, we believe an increase is already showing in the number of houses available. We will have those figures later in the year.

With regard to not meeting our targets, I believe we have met those targets. We said we would deliver——

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