Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will do my best to respond in the 23 seconds remaining. Under the programme for Government, the SHDs will expire at the end of the year. That is what has been agreed between the three parties. I believe in public housing on public land. I believe in real affordable housing but I also believe in delivering it. I do not know whether Deputy Barry, when he was a councillor in Cork, ever voted for a development plan but I sincerely doubt it. We will move forward with the biggest single investment in public housing in the history of the State this year. We have provided €3.3 billion for housing. Our plan was to deliver 12,750 new public homes but that will be impacted by Covid. We may be blamed for that too but we will our damnedest to deliver public and affordable homes for working people and will do so.

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