Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Durkan for his comments. The Housing Agency produced some fairly specific figures recently on projected needs over the next number of years. As I stated, work is also being done on what can be done for people in private rented accommodation and particularly the lower end of that sector. We know the number of people are on various schemes and systems, as well as the waiting lists, so we know what are the needs. Our difficulty is funding the supply. I mentioned to Deputy Stanley the various ways in which we want to construct houses for people, and we will have to try to be more imaginative in this respect than we have been in the past as we cannot significantly increase capital budgets for the State because of restrictions. We are using every possible method and we are open to any suggestions as well.

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