Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. One of the questions I put to departmental officials in the committee two weeks ago was whether it would be possible for a development to secure LIHAF funding where there would be no affordability dividend in that development. The official said it could be possible. When we raised it with the former Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, previously he said that if there was no affordable dividend in the actual development, the money would not be released. I am asking the Minister the same question. If a local authority comes back, for example, in Cherrywood, and if despite the expenditure of €15 million of taxpayers' money none of the units there come in at below €300,000 which would be the minimum affordable criterion at a push, will the Minister give a commitment that the money will not be provided in such circumstances?

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