Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----which is a very significant number. About half of those were built by councils and affordable housing bodies and the other half were acquired from developers, leased, or brought back into use having been voids. We need to go higher than that again. We are aiming for 10,000 this year and 11,000 or 12,000 the year after. This is the largest social housing programme that we have had in this State for decades but there are constraints and we should be honest about that. There are a limited number of carpenters and plumbers, there is a limited amount of building materials and a limited amount of serviced and zoned land in the State.

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