Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In respect of the first question, the heads of the Bill were cleared in September and it will be next year before the legislation is published. There is no reason, as has applied for many years, local authorities should not be in the business, or getting back into the business, of building houses. I recall as a member of a local authority there always being a serious housing development programme before the approved housing bodies came along. That Bill will be published next year.

There is no date for the publication of the Central Bank consolidation Bill. The issue the Deputy raised has been dealt with in a number of other ways.

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