Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is not a case of reading the figures as I am aware of them. They are public anyway and we put targets on our website for every local authority in the State. We have to adopt the current measures, involving HAP, RAS, etc., in order to help people who the Deputy purports to support, and in fairness, I do as well. There is a lag involved with construction and we must have measures in order to deal with that. These are the collective measures.

There cannot be a one size fits all approach for all local authorities. I know the Deputy is Dublin-centric but in other parts of the country, it makes more sense to act in a different way because of the behaviour of previous administrations, particularly with regard to the privatisation of social housing. There are some cases of excess stock.

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