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

-----back into new social housing stock. We will, and have in the past two years, dramatically increased the amount of social housing stock that is in use, but we need to do much more. We are talking about adding another 100,000 social houses to the housing stock over time, which is a hugely ambitious social housing plan which we will deliver on. I would contend that the delay in social housing delivery right now is not about the availability of capital. It is about process and capacity within local authorities to deliver at the pace at which we are asking them to deliver.

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