Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We publish our numbers regularly. We think it is important that we all work from the same data.

With regard to flexibility around the HAP payments, of course there is flexibility to go to an additional 20% above what the HAP allows for in terms of market rent. In Kildare, this has happened in approximately 39% of cases, and payments have gone to 14% above what was the rent at the time. It shows that the HAP is working in terms of providing flexibility. Almost all of the indicators we have for social house building and for private house building show a very positive increase. Planning permissions have increased by almost 50%, construction commencement notices have increased by almost 30%, and we have a greater number of ESB connections, not just in Dublin but around the country.

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