Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is no difference between what myself and Deputy O'Callaghan are saying. The State's role is to decide the nature of the affordable housing. I reiterate that, on Thursday 25 May 2017, then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, said that 550 units in this development would be affordable rental with an additional, smaller number of social housing units targeted at the elderly. I welcome that. It is the right thing to do. There is still much work to be done on the exact mechanism of rental. I want reassurance that units will be for affordable rental, not affordable for sale, in this development. It is important, as Deputy O'Callaghan said, because local people are being priced out of the area, both in purchasing and renting. We need affordable rental to give them a home to live in.

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