Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are trying to provide homes which are affordable and in areas where people want to live. For people who are not able to afford to rent or buy their own homes we want to make sure we will have social housing to meet their needs. That is what we are trying to do with multiple challenges in a housing market that is fundamentally broken and we are trying to fix. While we are building 12,000 or 13,000 housing units a year, we will have huge pressures in the private sector and the social housing sector to provide more and more stock, regardless of the split between social and private housing. We need to increase dramatically the supply of both private and social housing stock in order that we will have permanent homes to enable people to live in diverse and positive communities.

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