Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate and I welcome the regulation, even though it has taken quite some time. My colleagues on the Committee of Public Accounts have pointed out this was raised at a number of meetings. We recognised the absence of regulation. We received a good presentation from the interim chair of the regulatory committee on this matter. What caught my attention was the extraordinarily high number of voluntary bodies. I will come back to this in a general way with regard to housing policy.

Various figures are being used with regard to the Government plan. Are there 47,000 or 50,000 social housing units?

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