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

We are working directly, with management and with local authorities, to ensure that we are providing the financial resources to deliver an extra 50,000 social houses over the lifetime of the Rebuilding Ireland plan. This is a dramatic increase of almost one third in the social housing stock in Ireland. That is what we are doing. We will deliver that across multiple different plans which is what the complexity of the Rebuilding Ireland plan is all about.

What the Deputy does not like is that it is actually starting to work. We are seeing a 50% increase in planning applications-----

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